This Book Will Save Your Life
A Fiction, Novels, Contemporary book. We're all good when we want to be, otherwise we're fucking animals....
This work is short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. It is 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...
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- Pages: 380 pages
- ISBN: 9781862079762 / 1862079765
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We're all good when we want to be, otherwise we're fucking animals. There is no VIP room in reality, and there is no reality in this city. You can't Google the answers. People talk about being on the ride of your life -THIS IS YOUR LIFE." He takes a breath. "Whatever it is you need to know, you already know. Imagine what it is to be in another country, another landscape...tell me why anyone every thought this was a good idea. A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself. A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering. A.M. Homes, This Book Will Save Your Life
Drawn to this book by the lovely donuts on the cover together with the promise that this book would save my life, I am left utterly disappointed. Who picks a title like this, very arrogant. Living in Beverley Hills divorced Richard Novak the main charactor is a rich online investor who has no contact with the outside world and other... This is the kind of book that I'm not that sure of whether I liked it or not. I wasn't sure whether I should give it two stars (it was ok) or three (liked it). Maybe that's because I've never really read such kind of book. Well, what is it about? The main character is Richard, and when he feels a huge pain in his chest, he calls the... I would rather stick rusty tacs under my fingernails while listening to my mother on speaker phone, in public, as she breaks down just exactly what I'm doing wrong in my life than finish this book.
