I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home–PDF

Authors: Lorrie Moore
File Size: 1 MB
Format: PDF / EPUB
Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Categories: Fiction - Literary Fiction
Year : 2023
ISBN-10: 9780571273898
ISBN-13: 0571273890

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'America's first lady of darkness & mirth.' Guardian'The best American writer of her generation.' — Nick Hornby

'Unmissable.' — Marie Claire

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing & surprise.

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High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life & death, grief & the past, comedy & tragedy, & the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.

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A ghost story set in the nineteenth & twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial & romantic), & the vanishing & persistence of all things—seen & unseen.

Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love & death, passion & grief, & what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history & the human heart

A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown & an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all…

With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay & singular wry humor & wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing & surprise as she writes about love & rebirth & the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers & siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true.

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.