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This Book Will Save Your Life

By (author): A.M. Homes
Published by: Granta Books
Publication date: 29/Jan/2007
Format: Paperback - 380 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 198 x 129
ISBN-10: 1862079331
ISBN-13: 9781862079335
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> General & Literary Fiction

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Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.

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Richard Novak is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidentsconspire to hurl him back into the world, in this novel about compassion, ...

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