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Raza Syed

This uneven collection of A.M. Homes' short stories begins bangingly with the deadpan tale of a stagnant married couple who rekindle their spark by lighting up a crack pipe. A subsequent vignette about an abducted boy who induces a sort of buyer's remorse in his kidnapper is somewhat less effective but nevertheless intriguing. The rest of the stories are frequently too similar in their quietly desperate neurasthenia, eventually blurring together in a single high-pitched whine that's all posturin This uneven collection of A.M. Homes' short stories begins bangingly with the deadpan tale of a stagnant married couple who rekindle their spark by lighting up a crack pipe. A subsequent vignette about an abducted boy who induces a sort of buyer's remorse in his kidnapper is somewhat less effective but nevertheless intriguing. The rest of the stories are frequently too similar in their quietly desperate neurasthenia, eventually blurring together in a single high-pitched whine that's all posturing portraiture and not enough plot.

Jim Breslin

The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes is a fascinating collection of odd suburban tales. Written in a simple style, these stories are laden with symbolism that reveal a disturbing depth. A couple experiments with drugs after shipping their kids to the grandparents, a fat girl sunbathes nude in her

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backyard, a boy has a sexual affair with his sister’s Barbie doll.

I first read A.M. Homes last summer. Her short story Do Not Disturb was listed as one of the best short stories of all time. When I read The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes is a fascinating collection of odd suburban tales. Written in a simple style, these stories are laden with symbolism that reveal a disturbing depth. A couple experiments with drugs after shipping their kids to the grandparents, a fat girl sunbathes nude in her backyard, a boy has a sexual affair with his sister’s Barbie doll.

I first read A.M. Homes last summer. Her short story Do Not Disturb was listed as one of the best short stories of all time. When I read that, I knew her writing was write up my alley. In clear, concise language, she is descriptive and haunting. Her prose reminds me of Raymond Carver, though A.M.’s stories are unsettling in a different way – utilizing stark symbolic images.

A few of the stories in this collection really connected with me. The first story, Adults Alone, is true suburban darkness. A couple with a faltering numbness in their marriage, send the kids to Florida for the weekend. They don’t have much to do together anymore, and they end up getting stoned, eating in bed, watching TV and eventually experiment with smoking crack. Stories that plunge into this darkness of the soul are something I’m fond of – Leviathan from Tobias Wolff is one of my all time favorites – and Homes does an excellent job here.

Esther in the Night is heartbreaking. A mother recounts her life taking care of her son who has been injured in a car accident, how this tragedy has changed her family’s life and made their situation a spectacle. This territory is every parents’ nightmare, and it’s wrenching to read as she reveals what this life is like and what the mother deems is her solution.

Slumber Party resonated the most with me, yet it would be awkward to say I “like― it. The symbolism is very well drawn out. A young girl and her slightly older friend, who is a boy, are getting into mischief – setting fires in the woods until their ankles are burned. When the boy sleeps over, they end up touching each other sexually, and the boy suggests going to stand in the backyard naked. As they stand in the backyard, two innocent naked children, two older boys who are burglarizing the neighbors walk through the backyard and stop. The scene is full of palpable tension, and the mark left resonates on a much larger scale in the girl’s life and in the reader’s eyes.

Well done.

These are not feel good stories, but they are stories about the darkness often found in the soul. For readers who don’t pick up symbolism, they will just appear to be strange and in some cases, even degrading. For those readers that are able to uncover and absorb the symbolism, the best of these stories will haunt you.

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Stories exploring the strangeness that lies just beneath the surface of things. The subject matter ranges from crack cocaine to kidnapping to childhood sex games and Homes handles it all with a frankness, a willingness to stare unblinkingly at the taboo, that makes the stories almost perversely readable. There’s a somberness to the collection; the strangeness emerges as a symptom of, or reaction against, the characters' feelings of alienation, desperation, or general unhappiness. And yet there i Stories exploring the strangeness that lies just beneath the surface of things. The subject matter ranges from crack cocaine to kidnapping to childhood sex games and Homes handles it all with a frankness, a willingness to stare unblinkingly at the taboo, that makes the stories almost perversely readable. There’s a somberness to the collection; the strangeness emerges as a symptom of, or reaction against, the characters' feelings of alienation, desperation, or general unhappiness. And yet there is a wicked sense of humor present in most of the pieces, a humor that doesn't lighten the tone but instead gives the stories an even more warped quality by daring to laugh in the face of the forbidden.

Homes regards her characters with a certain detachment. Her evocation of their unstable emotional states is affecting but she also doesn't strain to make them particularly likable. These are warts-and-all portraits. They are rendered by Homes in minimalist prose. Minimalism is a deceptively challenging style for an author to employ because when it works it can seem effortless but when it doesn't the writing can come off as merely underdeveloped. Occasionally that’s the case here but in general the pared-down language gives the stories an engaging directness. As intriguing and startling as these stories are their impact is sometimes muted for reasons that are tough to place. Perhaps it’s the combination of minimalist prose and elliptical endings that makes some of these stories, when considered in retrospect, seem vaguely insubstantial. The collection’s last story is its best. “A Real Doll― involves a narrator’s affair with his sister’s Barbie doll. Homes takes this premise, which if handled differently could be merely ridiculous, and fashions from it a haunting story of obsession, sexual confusion, and existential dread. Yes.

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Arwen56

In linea generale, non mi è piaciuta per nulla questa raccolta di racconti. La seconda stelletta è dovuta solo al fatto che alcune idee sono davvero interessanti, benché non ben sviluppate.

Lo stile è disadorno, scarno, ma non arriva a essere efficacemente essenziale. Ossia, la “nudità ― delle parole non compensa con l’esattezza quel che perde in ricchezza espressiva. Può non sembrare, ma anche saper essere sintetici è un’arte. Suggerire o suscitare un’idea, un sentimento o un’emozione è spesso pi In linea generale, non mi è piaciuta per nulla questa raccolta di racconti. La seconda stelletta è dovuta solo al fatto che alcune idee sono davvero interessanti, benché non ben sviluppate.

Lo stile è disadorno, scarno, ma non arriva a essere efficacemente essenziale. Ossia, la “nudità ― delle parole non compensa con l’esattezza quel che perde in ricchezza espressiva. Può non sembrare, ma anche saper essere sintetici è un’arte. Suggerire o suscitare un’idea, un sentimento o un’emozione è spesso più difficile che descriverli con abbondanza di particolari. Ci vuole molta maestria e parecchia esperienza per farlo. Altrimenti, come in questo caso, l’eccessiva semplicità diventa irritante sciatteria.

Un solo libro, ovviamente, non basta per giudicare la qualità di un autore. Le darò, quindi, una seconda , quando mi capiterà . Una sola però. Sono troppo vecchia per potermi permettere di perdere troppo tempo in cose che non valgano davvero la pena.

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Tematiche ripetitive e - immagino volutamente - disturbate.

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Un racconto con gente nuda. Ok. Due racconti con gente nuda. Va be'. Tre racconti con gente nuda. Hum. Quattro racconti con gente nuda. Ancora?!

Un racconto sulla sessualità di un ragazzo. Ok.

Due racconti sulla sessualità di un ragazzo. Va be'.

Tre racconti sulla sessualità di un ragazzo. Questa non mi è nuova.

Un racconto sul non riconoscere più il proprio coniuge. Ok.

Due racconti sul non riconoscere più il proprio coniuge. Uff.

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