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The Safety of Objects

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  • A.M. Homes
    In A.M. Homes

    In The Safety of Objects (1990; film 2001), a collection of short fiction, Homes took a scalpel to the complacent pretensions obscuring the deviance and malaise permeating suburban America. Through piquant use of detail, she satirized the behaviour of its denizens in stories such as “Adults…

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