Jack
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679732217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Open Container said Jack. A.M. Homes' short story collection 'The Safety of Objects' made me a huge fan of her work. 'Jack' is a decent book, but could do with a bit of the brutal whimsy I've come to expect fom her work. While the plot might seem too pat to adults and the characters too noble, 'Jack' would be an excellent book fo. Judy Blume without the Heart Stacy Helton While I am not completely finished with the A.M. Homes catalogue, the ones I’ve read either knock it out of the park (THE MISTRESS’S DAUGHTER, THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS, MUSIC FOR TORCHING) or send a weak foul ball (THE END OF ALICE). JACK, which is listed as her first novel, gets to first base a. Read This Book! Monica Timmings Jack, a work of fiction by A. M. Homes, is a remarkable story in which Jack must make his way through high school with more than just the usual pressures and awkwardness of growing up because his father is gay. It is hard to believe that this is Homes's first novel because the Sarah Lawrence graduate has
. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Homes " perfectly captures the feelings, actions and even the speech cadences of a typical adolescent American male," commended PW. Author tour. From Publishers Weekly Jack is almost 16 as the story opens, struggling to keep life normal in the wake of his parents' divorce some years earlier. During a weekend outing, Jack's father admits to being a homosexual, throwing Jack's psyche and social life for a loop
Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye.. In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. Out of Jack’s struggle to redefine what “family” means, A. But when Jack’s father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he’s gay, nothing will ever be normal again. M