Getting Over Homer
Published on 13. July 2011
208 pages
978-0-307-80164-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Wise and forgiving . . . tough-minded and tender-hearted" (The New York Times), this delicious "coming of middle age" novel takes a lyrical, winsome, and genuinely side-splitting look at the heartbreak, aging, the search for home, and the madness of love between two mismatched men. "A stylish mix of humorous irony and realistic detail."--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle.
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Mark O'Donnell
Getting Over Homer
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11/1997
Random House Value Publishing
€23.67
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Mark O'Donnell
Getting Over Homer
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05/1997
Vintage Books
€12.70
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04/1996
Alfred A. Knopf
€39.32
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Person
Mark O'Donnell was the author of Getting Over Homer, as well as two comic collections, Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales. His humor, cartoons, and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Spy, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times Magazine, and several of his plays have been produced on and off-Broadway. He died in 2012.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I: My, You Know, Life
- 1: My Dilemma
- 2: My Name
- 3: Dead Old Dad
- 4: Give Me Puberty
- 5: Blind Date with Destiny
- 6: The Salivation Army
- II: Homer
- 7: Homer at Last
- 8: Trespassing in Paradise
- 9: The Vise of Vice
- 10: An Unwatched Pot Boils Over
- III: The Odyssey
- 11: Greetings from Lake Stupid
- 12: The Lost Weeknight
- 13: Dear Anxious
- 14: A Dark Night of the Soul on the Town
- 15: The Sibling Circuit
- 16: My Double's Mate
- 17: Melting
- IV: Teddy
- 18: The New Year's Baby
- 19: My Lover, the Virgin
- 20: Policeman, Save my Child
- 21: A Triumph in a Teapot
- 22: Awful Young
- 23: Cry, Cry Again
- 24: Progress!
- 25: Cookie Fumes
- 26: Last Licks
- 27: All for Now
