Amy Michael Homes Knihy

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

Protiváha přeúspěšného moderního světa. Richard Novak uzavřený v krásném domě v Los Angeles nakupuje akcie, rozmnožuje své bohatství a stýká se pouze se svou trenérkou, hospodyní a specialistkou na výživu. Richard je natolik odtržen od vnějšího světa i vlastních pocitů, až jednoho dne zjistí, že jeho život se vlastně zastavil. Pak ho však náhlá bolest v hrudníku přivede až na pohotovost, seznámí se s majitelem obchodu s koblihami a jeho samota utrpí vážné trhliny a Richardova citová obleva začíná… Přesná a zábavná satira o novém začátku, o proměně a o zvláštnostech Los Angeles.

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.