A. M. Homes

Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged everyman Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, a counterculture icon, and others. 40,000 first printing.

This Book Will Save Your Life

Bouke van der Bijl

This book reads like a fever dream. It’s the story of a man who is super rich and doesn’t need to do anything, but because if that he is philosophically dead, as he interacts with nobody and does nothing. It’s about his ‘revival’, this book is really bizarre and the events are really weird (multiple natural disasters happen in this book, and he saves multiple lives) but most of all the book is very fun, like a wild ride.

This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life.

Sarah Escorsa

Well I must admit I really don't know what I thought of this book! I guess it was an okay read but what bothered me was that the book is actually just a series of happenings and somehow lacks a real plot. The author tried a little too hard to be clever and overdid it with the "California rich & famous lifestyle" clichés. Come to think of it, I realize I didn't like the book that much!

Sara

Suzanne

Ketevan Marr

Martine Doppenberg

Clarence Wee

Chelsea White

A.M. Homes

This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who 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 yourself 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 generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of this touching and funny novel, which was shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Book Club in 2007.

This Book Will Save Your Life

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