The safety of objects
By: A.M. Homes
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847087300
Subjects: Suburban life; Fiction
Description: The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde Barbie doll seduces her teenage brother in an intense episode of erotic obsession; a couple go off the rails and smoke crack while their children are staying with their grandmother; and a lawyer seeks revenge on his boss by urinating into his potted plant every evening.
Notes: Originally published: U.S.: Norton; London: Viking, 1990.
Table of contents: title: Adults alone; title: Looking for Johnny; title: Chunky in heat; title: Jum train; title: The bullet catcher; title: Yours truly; title: Esther in the night; title: Slumber party; title: The I of it; title: A real doll.