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ISbN 978-0-14-312270-8 $16.00 ($17.00 CAN)<br />

Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 256 pp. Rights: E00<br />

Pub history: W. W. Norton hc 978-0-393-02884-3<br />

On sale: 1/29/<strong>2013</strong><br />

SuggeSTeD ORDeR<br />

ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />

42 FebRuARy<br />

“ Enthralling. . . . Full<br />

of subversive humor and<br />

truth . . . original and stiletto<br />

sharp.” —The Washington<br />

Post Book World<br />

“ Alarmingly good. . . . In<br />

many ways she is not unlike<br />

Cheever.” —The Village Voice<br />

Also AvAilABle FRoM <strong>Penguin</strong>:<br />

The Mistress’s Daughter 978-0-14-311331-7 $14.00<br />

This Book Will Save Your Life 978-0-14-303874-0 $16.00<br />

The breakthrough story collection that<br />

established A. M. Homes as one of the<br />

most daring writers of her generation<br />

The Safety of Objects<br />

Stories<br />

A. M. Homes<br />

Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this<br />

extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts<br />

the real and the surreal on even terms to create a disturbing and<br />

sometimes hilarious vision of the American dream. Included<br />

here are “Adults Alone,” in which a couple drops their kids off at<br />

Grandma’s and gives themselves over to ten days of Nintendo,<br />

porn videos, and crack; “A Real Doll,” in which a girl’s blond Barbie<br />

doll seduces her teenaged brother; and “Looking for Johnny,”<br />

in which a kidnapped boy, having failed to meet his abductor’s<br />

expectations, is returned home. These stories, by turns satirical,<br />

perverse, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers<br />

of ordinary life even as their characters stay hidden behind the<br />

disguises they have so carefully created.<br />

n The Safety of Objects was adapted into a film starring Glenn Close,<br />

Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, and Kristen Stewart<br />

n The Mistress’s Daughter was a New York Times bestseller<br />

n A. M. Homes’s new novel, May We Be Forgiven, will be published by<br />

Viking in October 2012<br />

n Visit amhomesbooks.com<br />

A. M. hoMes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s<br />

Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for<br />

Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack. She<br />

has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s<br />

Magazine, McSweeney’s, One Story, the New York Times, and Vanity<br />

Fair, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in New York City.

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