Blistering satire from the pen of the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your Life, The Unfolding finds the Big Guy reeling from political bombshells as his family implode around him.
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America.
As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings: self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her father's ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.
Dark, funny and prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today's divided world.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783785339
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 636 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 29 mm
From her first book onward, A. M. Holmes has been challenging us to look at fiction, the world, and one another as we haven't done-because we haven't had the nerve, the eyes, the dire and dispassionate imagination. Gripping, sad, funny, by turns aching and antic and, as always, exceedingly well-observed and written, The Unfolding opens up another one of her jagged windows, at times indistinguishable from a crack, in the world that is always unfolding, and always vanishing, around us - Michael Chabon
A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifyingly close to the unfunny truth - Salman Rushdie
The Unfolding is Swiftian in its energy and bite, yet brimful of compassion and emotion. The entwining of the personal and the political feels as if it's born again to a sparkling new life. How does she do it? - Neel Mukherjee
How can a book be hilarious and chilling at the same time? A.M. Homes's The Unfolding is a modern masterpiece, a scary immersion deep into the heart of American power - Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends
Compelling, funny, horrifying, and tremendously astute, this novel cuts right to the bone - Phil Klay, author of Missionaries
A.M. Homes has perfectly captured an America as it lurches toward freak-out, and a family as it shreds the lies it's been living by... Hilarious and shocking and heartbreaking and just a little bit deranged - Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
The Big Guy thinks it could never happen here.
Then it happens.
The Unfolding takes us back to that magical night in 2008 when Barack Obama was first elected to the American Presidency, but the Big Guy is far from...
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I love all of A M’s work and this is another belter. So cleverly written to build the characters and plot. Some real mind nuggets of big think tank methods and how politics works birdied within a families turmoil. Buy... More
‘The news has hit the room like death.’
My thanks to Granta Publications for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘The Unfolding’ by A. M. Homes.
This dark political comedy-drama opens in the early hours of 5 November, 2008 as...
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