A. M Homes
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""A dazzling portrait of a family—and a country—in flux…The Unfolding is hilarious and shocking and heartbreaking and just a little bit deranged—in other words, it’s a book that feels like what it feels like to be alive right now."—Nathan Hill, author of The Nix “Gripping, sad, funny, by turns aching and antic and, as always, exceedingly well-observed and -written.”٬٢٠١٤؛Michael Chabon, bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called 'a key barometer of the literary climate' by the New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney's--a comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work. Drawing on the full range of the journal thus far--from the very earliest volumes to the Chris Ware-edited graphic novel issue to the full-on Sunday-newspaper...