The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor A.M. Homes is the author of five novels, In a Country of Mothers, The End of Alice, Music for Torching, Jack and This Book Will Save Your Life, and two collections of short stories, The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know, all published by Granta. She lives in New York City. Klappentext On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. 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, and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the clash between her childhood fantasies of her birth parents and the disappointing reality. Zusammenfassung 'A compelling! devastating and furiously good book written with an honesty that few of us would risk' Zadie Smith

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: A M Homes, A. M. Homes, A.M. Homes, A.M. (Y) Homes
• Editore: Granta Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.05.2008
• EAN: 9781847080110
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-011-0
• Pagine: 238
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie