Homes a m amy (15 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. 275 pp. "It's the story of Claire, a therapist who many years ago gave up an infant daughter for adoption, and Claire's patient Jody, a young woman confused about her future. Claire begins to suspect that Jody is the daughter she gave away. Both women have slightly troubling personal lives. Many of their relationships have shortcomings that neither is particularly happy with and they begin to rely on the patient-therapist relationship too much. This is a witty, darkly comic psychological thriller that is very, very readable. Signed by author. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

Illustrated Wraps. Condizione: Fine. 33 pp. A separately bound book from McSweeney's 7. 'My wife the doctor, is not well. In the end she could be dead. It started suddenly, on a country weekend, a movie with friends, a pizza, and then pain.' Author of Jack; The Safety of Objects; In a Country of Mothers; The End of Alice; Appendix A (Supplemental material for The End of Alice); Music For Torching; Things You Should Know; Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill; and This Book Will Save Your Life. Melinda Beck (illustratore).…

Tapa Blanda. Condizione: Muy bien. Primera Edición En Español. PRIMERA EDICIÓN EN ESPAÑOL. FIRST SPANISH EDITION. Título original "Things you Should Know" traducción de Javier MArtínez de Pinsón. Colección "Panorama de narrativas" núm 621. MUY BUEN ejemplar. 243pp + 5h.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. [6], 367, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling/sticker residue on front. Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961) is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Her novel The End of Alice is about a convicted child molester and murderer. Homes, who was adopted at birth, met her biological parents for the first time when she was 31, and published a memoir, The Mistress's Daughter about her exploration of her expanded "family". Her novel May We Be Forgiven was published by Viking Books in 2012; its first chapter was published in the 100th issue of Granta (in 2008), and was selected by Salman Rushdie for The Best American Short Stories 2008. The novel won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013. Her newest novel, The Unfolding, was published by Viking on September 6, 2022. Homes published the first chapter of her 1999 novel Music for Torching as a short story in The New Yorker. The novel features characters who appeared in the short stories of The Safety of Objects. It features a suburban couple who deliberately burn their house down. Jill Adams in The Barcelona Review described it as having Homes' "trademark style of wry humor applied to the uncanny dissection of suburbia's facade." The Observer found it "immensely disturbing". People magazine called the novel "haunting,", Gary Krist in The New York Times stated "I found myself rapt from beginning to end, fascinated by Homes's single-minded talent for provocation." In Music for Torching, the controversial author of The End of Alice lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life at the end of the century. Flash-frozen in the anxious culture of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine (the couple first featured in Homes's collection of stories The Safety of Objects) have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with "making things good again," they spin the quiet terrors of family life into fantastical frenzy that careens out of control, doing and saying all the things we dare not, throwing into full relief the chasm between our public and private selves. From a strange and hilarious encounter on the floor of the pantry with a Stepford-wife neighbor, to an ill-conceived plan for a tattoo, to a sexy town cop who shows up at every inopportune moment, to house cleaning team in space suits, to a mistress calling on the cell phone, to a hostage situation at the school, Homes creates characters so outrageously flawed and deeply human that they are entirely believable. With Music For Torching, A.M. Homes brings her unnerving emotional intensity to the heart of America, creating a new and dangerous territory that is distinctly her own. Derived from a Kirkus review: Paul and Elaine Weiss have a very bad ten days in this newest by Homes, who takes her penchant for extreme situations and behavior to the suburbs. It begins as a typical Westchester County weekend: a dinner party followed by a barbecue at which everyone drinks too much and reveals their boredom and unhappinessâ"except that the Weisses top their neighbors in acting out. Elaine cuts Paul's neck with a knife on Friday; he has phone sex with their divorced buddy Henry's new girlfriend on Saturday; and they join forces on Sunday to set fire to their house, then head for a motel with their sons, sullen teen Daniel and asthmatic nine-year-old Sammy. Homes flings us into the middle of her protagonists" messed-up lives, yet for a long time keeps her readers emotionally distant from them. Whether detailing a lesbian encounter on a washing machine or genital tattooing, the narration doesn't bat an eye or hazard an explanation. This trendy flat affect consorts oddly but aptly with the author's rather generic satire of suburban society: though the time is clearly the present, the wives obsess about laundry and meals while the husbands commute to unspecified jobs at anonymous corporations in approved "50s fashion. It seems at first that Homes intends merely to patronize her characters. Then slowly, sneakily, without softening the weirdness and nasty edges of their actions, she entangles us in a sense of complicity with Elaine, Paul, and their equally troubled friends. "None are what they seem, none are what you think, none are what you'd want them to be," she writes in the book's most moving passage. "They all are both more and lessâ"deeply human." The climax is still shocking, drawing a jagged curtain across a drama with plenty of conflict. Effective and almost always deeply creepy. People will be talking about this one. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Marion Ettlinger (Author photograph) ans Andy Carp (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 104 pages, Folio. No DJ. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, some light tearing along edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Photographs by Amy Arbus, with an essay by A.M. Homes. Heavy card boards over a cloth spine. A young Madonna on the front cover. Book is in Tidy condition inside and out. Minor bumping to corners. No inscriptions or markings. This is a large heavy book so postage may be more that quoted postage. During the eighties Amy Arbus (Daughter of Diane) ran a weekly column in the Village Voice called 'On The Street'. Similar to the straight-ups of i-D she pictured anybody and everyone who appeared interesting. This book compiles highlights of a decade of her work, and features a young Madonna amongst others.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Between 1980 and 1990, Amy Arbus produced a monthly street photography column for The Village Voice entitled On the Street, making over five hundred black & white portraits of New Yorkers across the East Village, SoHo, and the Lower East Side. This volume brings together seventy of those images, a decade's worth of documentary work shot across one of the most concentrated periods of cultural production in New York's recent history. The Village Voice was the country's first alternative newsweekly and the primary organ of record for downtown New York's cultural life, the publication that first gave serious coverage to hip-hop, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and where Robert Christgau set the critical agenda for a generation of music writing. Appearing in its pages carried weight. Arbus's column ran inside that context, and its placement there was part of its meaning. Arbus worked with a single directive: photograph anyone who makes you turn your head. Her subjects: musicians, designers, drag performers, scenesters, and artists were the people who used clothing and appearance as a primary creative medium in a neighborhood simultaneously producing Madonna, Basquiat, Haring, Cindy Sherman, Sonic Youth, and Anna Sui. Many were unknown beyond that world at the time of photographing. Several are now cultural reference points. The work sits between street photography and portraiture. Most of her subjects are posed, many meet the camera directly, and a consistently low angle gives the images a quiet formality. The Village Voice column ran the full length of the decade, through the AIDS crisis, and the archive carries the weight of that. Works from the series are included in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Morgan Library .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Welcome Books, New York. 2006. 104 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in grey cloth boards with black and white photo pastedown present to the front board and titles present to the spine and rear board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Between 1980 and 1990, over five hundred of photographer Amy Arbus's impromptu and edgy portraits of New Yorkers appeared in the Village Voice's monthly fashion feature, "On the Street." The column's missive was to document the city's most adventurous trednsetters as they lived their lives. But Arbus's photographs tell much more than a style story. From the friendliest to the grittiest, every one of these images is a potent tribute to self-expression. Taken as a whole, they reflect an era of contradictions, a time in America when urban individualism and raw creativity were courageously fighting for breathing room and holding their own in a culture ruled by wealthy conservatism and Republican politics. EB; 10.54 X 0.82 X 13.74 inches; 104 pages.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 104 pages. Features an essay by A.M. Homes. A collection of 70 black and white images by Amy Arbus, the daughter of Diane Arbus. A clean near fine copy in boards with a black and white image of Madonna affixed to the front cover and a cloth spine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Arbus on the second endpaper. A very nice copy of a book prone to wear. Signed.…

Condizione: Very Good.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Bien. Ida Panicelli, Bell Hooks, Carol Squiers, Maurice Berger, Greil Marcus, Michael Covino, David Sternbach, Lorraine O'Grady, Jimmie Durham, Franz Graf, Joan Acocella, Luigi Ontani, Joney-Jean Henry, Tran Thi Nhu, Margit M. L. Pearson, Giuseppe Schiavinotto, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Leïla Sebbar, David Deitcher, Homi K. Bhabha, Greg Tate, Arthur Jafa, Langlands & Bell, Michael Corris, Donald Kuspit, Jan Avgikos, Rhonda Lieberman, David Rimanelli, Justin Spring, Lisa Liebmann, A.M. Homes, Tom Kalin, Kirby Gookin, RoseLee Goldberg, Matthew Weinstein, Jenifer P. Borum, John Yau, Patricia C. Phillips, Howard Risatti, Vincent A. Carducci, James Yood, Maria Porges, Lane Relyea, Amy Gerstler, Linda Genereux, José Luis Brea, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, Massimo Carboni, Francesca Pasini, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Olivier Zahm, Anne Dagbert, Markus Brüderlin, Jutta Koether, Noemi Smolik, Michael Tarantino, Michael Corris, Arturo Silva, Louise Bourgeois.…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Aceptable. Essays "Glamour Wounds: Rhonda Lieberman on The Jew Beat, Again," by Rhonda Lieberman; "Music: David Rimanelli and Tina Lyons on New Wave," by David Rimanelli and Tina Lyon; "Media Kids: Anne Marlowe on Rock at Princeton," by Ann Marlowe; "Exits and Entrances: Jeanne Silverthorne on David Mamets Oleanna," by Jeanne Silverthorne; "Film: Manohla Dargis on Gillian Armstrong's 'Last Days of Chez Nous,'" by Manohla Dargis; "Books: Gary Kamiya on James Miller's 'Passion of Michel Foucault,'" by Gary Kamiya; "Museum Piece: Thomas McEvilley on 'Exhibiting Cultures' and 'Museums and Communities,'" by Thomas McEvilley; "Eugenio Dittborn: Return to Sender," by Dan Cameron; "Half-Life: A Project for Artforum," by Nick Waplington with text by Jayne Anne Phillips; "Malice toward Nuns," Manohla Dargis talks with Abel Ferrara; "Luis Gordillo's Anxious Biology," by Lisa Liebmann; "You and I: The Art of Ketty La Rocca," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia," Peter Canning interviews Slavoj i ek; "Openings: Chris Isner," by Daniela Salvioni. Reviews Donald Kuspit, Jan Avgikos, Barry Schwabsky, Kirby Gookin, Ben Lifson, Joshua Decter, A.M. Homes, David Pagel, Andrew Perchuk, Jenifer P. Borum, Keith Seward, Lois Nesbitt, Patricia C. Phillips, RoseLee Goldberg, Francine Koslow Miller, James Yood, Therese Lichtenstein, Maria Porges, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weissman, Laura U. Marks, Carlos Basualdo, José Luis Brea, Massimo Carboni, Giorgio Verzotti, Anne Dagbert, Miriam Rosen, Peter Nesweda, Claudia Jolles, Noemi Smolik, Sabine B. Vogel, Peter Funken, Michael Corris, Charles Green. Cover: Nick Waplington.…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Aceptable. Essays "Secret Vices: Marco Giusti on the Way We Were," by Marco Giusti; "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on Violence at Benetton," by Carol Squiers; "Believe it or Not: J. Hoberman on JFK," by J. Hoberman; "Commedia Dell'Arte: A Project for Artforum," by Joost Swarte; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Books: Vivian Sobchack on 'Strange Weather,'" by Vivian Sobchack; "Material Girl: Sylvie Fleury," by Elizabeth Janus; "The Loyal Opposition," by Jadran Adamovic; "Yugoslavia and the Press," by Lorenzo Buj; "Gimme Shelter," by Peter Marcuse with photographs by Camilo José Vegara; "Richard Prince's Psychopathic America," by Donald Kuspit; "The Sweet Smell of Success," by Jack Bankowsky; "The Gotham Chronicles: A Project for Artforum," by Ralph Gibson; "What is to be Done with Monumental Propaganda? : A Project for Artforum," by Komar and Melamid; "Critical Reflections," by Thomas Crow; "British? Young? Invisible? w/ Attitude?," by Michael Corris; "Openings: Joe Scanlan," by Sabine B. Vogel. Reviews by Donald Kuspit, Michael Corris, Jan Avgikos, Matthew Weinstein, Lisa Liebmann, David Rimanelli, Justin Spring, Keith Seward, A.M. Homes, John Yau, Jenifer P. Borum, Thad Ziolkowski, Lois E. Nesbitt, Ronny Cohen, Patricia C. Phillips, RoseLee Goldberg, Eileen Neff, James Yood, Maria Porges, Benjamin Weissman, Lane Relyea, Amelia Jones, Amy Gerstler, Linda Genereux, Menene Gras Balaguer, Maria Nadotti, Massimo Carboni, Francesca Pasini, Anne Dagbert, Olivier Zahm, Miriam Rosen, Christian Kravagna, Claudia Jolles, Justin Hoffmann, Jutta Koether, Norbert Messler, Frank-Alexander Hettig, Michael Tarantino, Michael Archer. Cover: Anya Gallaccio. …

Rústica. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Nuevo. 0. En dotze relats duna imaginació desbordant, sempre amb un toc inquietant, Homes radiografia sense pietat la societat americana: lexcés hedonista dels més rics, la creença infantilitzant en el somni americà, el desig de posseir més i més. Un home viatja a Disneyland per retrobar lúltima vegada que va ser feliç, un pare és proclamat candidat a president durant un rutinari dia de compres familiars, uns vells amics es redescobreixen en un congrés sobre genocidis, una família està obsessionada en dur una vida completament superficial. Any rere any Homes és considerada pels lectors i crítics com un dels escriptors més audaços i més originals, aclamada per la seva precisió psicològica i perquè, com va dir Ali Smith, la seva sàtira -tan a prop de la veritat- és aterradora . Penseu en A. M. Homes com la fi lla impossible de John Cheever i Dorothy Parker. - Rodrigo Fresán Amb el seu humor fosc i els seus diàlegs punyents, Homes mesura la fondària de les ansietats quotidianes als Estats Units. - Time Una escriptora endimoniadament bona sempre. - Zadie Smith á EDITAT AMB EL SUPORT DEL DEPARTAMENT DE CULTURA DE LA GENERALITAT. LIBRO. …