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Salon wrote of the characters in A. M. Homes’s 2002 story collection Things You Should Know, “There are few formalities, even less bulls--t, no making nice for the sake of appearances.” The same could be said for Homes’s work as a whole. She specializes in bringing dark impulses and twisted tendencies to the surface, never softening or downplaying the often disturbing behavior displayed by her characters.
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Fact File
| Name:
A. M. Homes
Current Home:
New York, New York
Date of Birth:
1961
Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.
| | Education:
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1985; M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Awards:
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
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Accidental Novel
| Homes didn't mean to write Music for Torching as a full-length novel -- she thought she had already handled its suburban subjects in a short story for The New Yorker with the same title and in the Safety of Objects story "Adults Alone." Homes told Philadelphia's City Paper, "I am completely opposed to stories that turn into novels.... But I was still writing. I thought it was like drooling. I ignored it. At a certain point I had 60 pages and I thought, that's weird because I don't usually end up with 60 extra pages of anything. And then I had like 100. So I thought, OK, I guess this is the next book. It was really accidental."
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| | The Safety of Objects
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A. M. Homes
Homes is at her strongest with short fiction, and the full range of her imagination can be sampled in this odd, sometimes disturbing but never boring collection. And The Boston Globe has already labeled her latest collection, Things You Should Know, as better than her first.
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| | The End of Alice
by
A. M. Homes
Of her most controversial work, The End of Alice, Newsweek admitted, "at least you have to admire A. M. Homes's nerve -- not just because her new novel features a killer pedophile, but because she's inviting comparisons withone of the century's great books, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita...."
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