This Book Will Save Your Life

by A.M. Homes

Genres: Black Humor; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he 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 hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house...

Release date: April 3, 2007

Publisher: Penguin Books

Print pages: 384