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Jack
by
A.M. Homes
Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.
221 pages
Published
2004
by Granta
(first published 1989)
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Sono arrivato al quarto romanzo di AM Homes ed è la prima volta che la trovo usare il registro della leggerezza e dell’ironia: qui ci sono situazioni comiche, divertenti, perfino esilaranti. Siccome è l’opera dell’esordio, mi viene da pensare che Homes abbia poi preferito abbandonare il tono leggero.
Comunque, il risultato non migliora granché: continuo a trovarla scrittrice che non riesce mai a raggiungere il risultato (alto) che si propone. E continuo a trovarla scrittri...more
Sono arrivato al quarto romanzo di AM Homes ed è la prima volta che la trovo usare il registro della leggerezza e dell’ironia: qui ci sono situazioni comiche, divertenti, perfino esilaranti. Siccome è l’opera dell’esordio, mi viene da pensare che Homes abbia poi preferito abbandonare il tono leggero.
Comunque, il risultato non migliora granché: continuo a trovarla scrittrice che non riesce mai a raggiungere il risultato (alto) che si propone. E continuo a trovarla scrittri...more
Title&auther: Jack by A.M. HOMES
ISBN #: 9780679732211
Febuary20.008
*this need grammer corrections. still need to talk to Nourok: JUST A NOTE TO ALL =D
In the beginng, i thought think book was going to be a biography of this kid name Jack, but as i started to read this phenomenal book, my thought has utterly changed my thought to it. I just can't let go of this book.
The protangonist, Jack, learned to accept peoples differences. The meaning of being gay. He faces the fact that his parents are d...more
ISBN #: 9780679732211
Febuary20.008
*this need grammer corrections. still need to talk to Nourok: JUST A NOTE TO ALL =D
In the beginng, i thought think book was going to be a biography of this kid name Jack, but as i started to read this phenomenal book, my thought has utterly changed my thought to it. I just can't let go of this book.
The protangonist, Jack, learned to accept peoples differences. The meaning of being gay. He faces the fact that his parents are d...more
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This book was wonderful! It was so reminiscent of "Cather in the Rye" and real life situations that I immediately fell in love and read it in one day.
The story follows a young adult named Jack whose parents divorced when he was young. His mother is now primarily involved with one man, and his father doesn't seem to settle down. Then one day, his father takes him on a rowboat ride and in the middle of the lake, tells Jack that he's gay (the father, not Jack). Jack is thrown for a loop and has to...more
The story follows a young adult named Jack whose parents divorced when he was young. His mother is now primarily involved with one man, and his father doesn't seem to settle down. Then one day, his father takes him on a rowboat ride and in the middle of the lake, tells Jack that he's gay (the father, not Jack). Jack is thrown for a loop and has to...more
This is a book that makes me have a really strong feeling. “Jack”, written by A.M. Homes is a fantastic book to read. It is about a boy who is around 15 to 16 years old, who studies in high school, and who is an unlucky boy needs to face a huge problem in his life. His parents are divorce, but that’s a very common event that we will see in the modern day. However, that’s not the end, Jack’s father told him that he is gay, which makes Jack feels impossible, and does not know what to do. He needs...more
Different qualities make up each different person. Qualities include stuff that others do not appreciate. People that discriminates another race will not go well with the protagonist, Jack in the book.
Jack's father is gay, and he has to accept taunts and teases from people at school. Jack also experiences attacks that he witnesses himself of people beating up others who are not straight. Jack also goes out with a girl whose father is gay which led to the connection between the families. If I wer...more
Jack's father is gay, and he has to accept taunts and teases from people at school. Jack also experiences attacks that he witnesses himself of people beating up others who are not straight. Jack also goes out with a girl whose father is gay which led to the connection between the families. If I wer...more
Jun 01, 2011
Anthony Guo
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5 of 5 stars
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Jack, by A.M. Homes, is a great book about the protagonist, Jack, who realizes his father was gay. And this is actually really serious because it changed Jack's life. In his society, having a father that was not straight results into immediate taunting and teasing in Jack's school.
This is a serious cause in our society also. I can connect this to our world, where people are fighting for gays. People seriously would attack others just because they are gay, and this is proven through the news w...more
This is a serious cause in our society also. I can connect this to our world, where people are fighting for gays. People seriously would attack others just because they are gay, and this is proven through the news w...more
Jack by A.M Homes is about at 15 year old boy going on 16 who has a wierd best friend and he finds out his dad is gay. Jack is very shocked about this information that he finds out and he tries to keep it a secret. This book also is a coming-of-age story that talks about the many different changes in Jack's life.
I think the message of this book is that you should accept everyone especially your parents if they have hurt you in some ways because when Jack first found out his dad was gay he was ve...more
I think the message of this book is that you should accept everyone especially your parents if they have hurt you in some ways because when Jack first found out his dad was gay he was ve...more
This is one of those books to which, if it were possible to give more than 5 stars on GR, I'd definitely give more than 5 stars. There wasn't a single thing about this book that I didn't like. From the narrator, to the writing style, to the exceptional humor and family drama, it was spectacularly executed and I can see this novel becoming a topic of discussion in high school English classes once being prejudiced towards people who are gay is just as socially unacceptable as being racist is today...more
Jack, A Teenage boy who's family breaks apart(though he now lives with his mom), and many things start to happen in his life. In the beginning, as there family breaks apart Jack the main character finds out that his father is Homosexual and he becomes sad because of the truth of his dad, as he is Homosexual. This book was interesting in a way as it showed how a person's life can change just by finding out the truth of something. We can understand in the book that Jack feels very sad, as many thi...more
The blurb on the back cover compares this book to Catcher in the Rye, and it's a good comparison in many ways. A colleague recommended this book to me as a possible novel to teach concerning the theme of marriage. Unfortunately, I don't think the book is enough of a challenge for second-year A-level students. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Told from teenage Jack's perspective, the novel is set in the '80s, at a time when parents coming out as gay was seen as far more radical than it is today i...more
Told from teenage Jack's perspective, the novel is set in the '80s, at a time when parents coming out as gay was seen as far more radical than it is today i...more
Yet another coming of age book, which I seem to be reading a lot these days. Jack is a very plain and simple book, nothing really special, but it has a nice and endearing message about accepting homosexuality.
Jack focuses on a teenage boy whose whole life appears to change when his father takes him out on a rowboat and admits that he is gay. The book then dives into exploring how Jack's mentality and entire life appears to be affected by this revelation. Personally, I found all of this to be ov...more
Jack focuses on a teenage boy whose whole life appears to change when his father takes him out on a rowboat and admits that he is gay. The book then dives into exploring how Jack's mentality and entire life appears to be affected by this revelation. Personally, I found all of this to be ov...more
This book starts with a father coming out to his young teenage son on a boat in the middle of a lake. A big dramatic moment. What this book does brilliantly thereafter is tell, from the perspective of a lovely, level headed boy, about all the tiny dramas that follow in Jack's life. But without being too dramatic at all. Just telling stories about people and how they cope and how they live, and the constellation of anxieties and confusions of adolescence, and how it's all a big deal, and not a bi...more
I like this book very much, because of how the author use modernize ideas about gay. I think everyone want to be as normal as possible. "normal" means to have a family with parents; to have lots of friends; to have loved ones; to be surround by love from others. "Normal", what a familiar word!But not everyone can be "normal". Jack thought he had a normal life, but he discovered that his father is gay. This new drew him crazy,he didn't know what to do. I think Jack should be relax, I think everyo...more
Jack is a book written by A.M. Homes, which is the author for "The Catcher in the Rye" too. I haven't read The Catcher in the Rye but so far, most of my friends recommended it to me.
Now about this book, Jack is a typical teenager who goes to high school with his friend, Max. His life is quite normal. Divorced Parents aren't what you call exactly normal, but his life was about to change when his father invited him to the lake. Now when I said this, it probably doesn't sound as significant, but i...more
Now about this book, Jack is a typical teenager who goes to high school with his friend, Max. His life is quite normal. Divorced Parents aren't what you call exactly normal, but his life was about to change when his father invited him to the lake. Now when I said this, it probably doesn't sound as significant, but i...more
Nov 08, 2009
Josephine
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Jack, this book deals with very strong content of homosexuals. Jack's parents spilt up and Jack's father is gay. Paul, Jack's father, is lovers with Bob. Jack's friend, Max, is kind of odd. Paul's friend's daughter is Maggie, a school mate of Jack and Max's. Jack and Maggie end up going out. Maggie's dad is also gay but his lover is John/Jake.
A.M. Homes takes reading for teenagers to a new level. She also makes the characters come to life in a difficult situation. How would you feel if your fa...more
A.M. Homes takes reading for teenagers to a new level. She also makes the characters come to life in a difficult situation. How would you feel if your fa...more
I read this book for my book club and I was really excited to read it. From the synopsis, Jack sounded so relevant to what kids are facing today. However, I was a little bit disappointed. Besides Jack, I had a difficult time liking the characters. Jack's mom, dad, and best friend are, at best, tolerable and, at worst, self-absorbed.
Jack is a really sweet kid and the only child of divorced parents. At first he is only dealing with his parents' bitter divorce. His mother is extremely angry and hi...more
Jack is a really sweet kid and the only child of divorced parents. At first he is only dealing with his parents' bitter divorce. His mother is extremely angry and hi...more
This book was awesome, mostly because of the fact that Jack discovers that his father is homosexual after his parent's divorce. His reaction to it made me cringe, because he talked about how much he hated his father, how he was ashamed of him, and he was a "fag". Their relationship got awkward after the confession. It is not his father's fault that his sexual orientation is the way it is. I also really liked the fact that Jack got used to that and finally was determined to get accustomed to his...more
When reading this book it made me think about how bisexuals are always getting rejected and treated unfairly because of who they like and how they act. The main character in this story has to face the fact that his dad is a homosexual, with no one to go to for support or guidance he now has to over come this new situation that his dad has put him in by my himself. If i put myself in jack's shoes I think i will feel left out. I would feel left out because all of my friends always make fun of bise...more
Interesting novel. Very well written and fast moving. At least it's a different perspective on the notion of having a gay father who leaves to live with another man and its effects on the young teenage son. He slowly seems to come to terms with it but would still prefer to have a `normal' father like everyone else - even when that ideal normal family (that of his friend Max) turns out to be anything but ideal. We get his mother's perspective on the situation which again takes time to deal with....more
Jack is about a boy that has a bisexual father. The boy can not with stand his father because he think that its really disgraceful. Still he has to accept the true and get over with it.
I think that the theme was to accept the true of yourself. It is because that boy really hated hi father, but still he would have to accept it someday. Just not now. You can not get away with the true.
I recommend this book to people that free like they have the same kind of problem and wants to get it off their m...more
I think that the theme was to accept the true of yourself. It is because that boy really hated hi father, but still he would have to accept it someday. Just not now. You can not get away with the true.
I recommend this book to people that free like they have the same kind of problem and wants to get it off their m...more
I like this book because it reflects on the modern day events and problems. In the book, Jack is angry and hate about his father since his father is bisexual. I think that most of the people in the world can not accept bisexual relationship, especially for parents, they can not accept their children to be the bisexual people. However, many parents forgive their children because no matter what their children do, they are still their children, they can not hate them forever, and they can not hold...more
Jan 14, 2013
Mircalla64 (free Liu Xiaobo)
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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"che razza di imbecille è uno che si alza in piedi nella palestra di una scuola superiore e dice a venti ragazzi che se non uccidono sono finocchi? E poi ci si domanda com'è che uno cresce e va in giro a sparare alla gente e roba simile"
Jack ha una famiglia diversa da quella del suo migliore amico, intanto i suoi sono divorziati e poi, come se non bastasse, suo padre a un certo punto gli confessa la sua omosessualità
ora, che un padre faccia una cosa del genere ci può anche stare, ma che poi dec...more
Jack ha una famiglia diversa da quella del suo migliore amico, intanto i suoi sono divorziati e poi, come se non bastasse, suo padre a un certo punto gli confessa la sua omosessualità
ora, che un padre faccia una cosa del genere ci può anche stare, ma che poi dec...more
This book is talking about a boy who has the same title as this book, Jack. This is maining talking about the relationship between Jack and his family. The one that I remember the most is called Michael, who is the man that loves Jack's mother. The reason why I remember him the most is because he helps Jack to talk about the problems and makes him to be happier. I like this book because it is really can talk about the relationship between everyone and we can think about ourselves while we are re...more
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A.M. Homes's first novel Jack is the third book I've read by the author. I've added her to my "favorite authors" list after the second one, and I'm very excited to read the rest of her work. She's brave and very crafty with her use of language and emotions. She focuses on characters that are trying to discover themselves as well as those around them. She's very skilled in observing and analyzing human behavior, which is very obvious in her catching the little thing...more
A.M. Homes's first novel Jack is the third book I've read by the author. I've added her to my "favorite authors" list after the second one, and I'm very excited to read the rest of her work. She's brave and very crafty with her use of language and emotions. She focuses on characters that are trying to discover themselves as well as those around them. She's very skilled in observing and analyzing human behavior, which is very obvious in her catching the little thing...more
After reading this book it made me think of how everyone's life is not perfect and that not everyone get want they want. This is want Jack is experiencing now. His Dad was gay the whole time and he didn't know until he have a chat with him during rowing a boat. His first reaction was shock and seem to run away from him but later on it shows how he accept the true. Even if this related problem happen before giving time to the person to think about it will make the problem better so that they can...more
Jack, 1990, 240pp., $12.95
A.M. Homes ISBN 978-0679732211
“Max, shut up,” I said “It’s not something I dreamed. It’s not a game. My father’s a faggot. He took me out on the lake, he rented a rowboat, and out there, in the middle of the goddamned lake, he told me he’s queer.” Hopeless, Jack wants a normal life like his friend max. One loving brother and two normal parents is what he considered a loving family. But now he knows that his dad is gay and he can’t change it. He is stressed through out...more
A.M. Homes ISBN 978-0679732211
“Max, shut up,” I said “It’s not something I dreamed. It’s not a game. My father’s a faggot. He took me out on the lake, he rented a rowboat, and out there, in the middle of the goddamned lake, he told me he’s queer.” Hopeless, Jack wants a normal life like his friend max. One loving brother and two normal parents is what he considered a loving family. But now he knows that his dad is gay and he can’t change it. He is stressed through out...more
This book was about a boy named Jack who's parents are divorce. He finds out later on that his dad is gay and he starts rejecting his dad. Even though he is being rejected, Jack's dad is still trying to show that he is still who he is. Later on Jack starts to accept his dad little by little. This books shows that not everyone's life is always perfect. It also shows that gay people aren't accepted by everyone in society so it makes it difficult for them to live the lifestyle they want to live.
"Jack" is a book about a boy named Jack, a teenager. Jack's parents are divorced. That's not the worse part. What's worse than that is his dad tells him that he is gay. Everything is falling apart in his life. All Jack want is to be normal, but unfortunately, he can't get that.
This book was a good book. It shows how Jack changes through out the book. This book teaches you to accept people for who they are, not someone they are not. This book is recommended to everyone.
This book was a good book. It shows how Jack changes through out the book. This book teaches you to accept people for who they are, not someone they are not. This book is recommended to everyone.
Very well written story about a teenager who learns his father is gay.
From back cover:
"In JACK, A.M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine what "family" means, A.M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humour, charm, and...more
From back cover:
"In JACK, A.M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine what "family" means, A.M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humour, charm, and...more
I really enjoyed this novel about an adolescent trying to find his way in the world. Although I've never been a teenage boy, it felt 'right', his voice seemed authentic, especially since it was (I think) set in the Eighties (when I was a kid).
An easy read but very touching.
I read this on a long train journey from London to Glasgow. It was a speculative purchase from Judd Books in Camden.
An easy read but very touching.
I read this on a long train journey from London to Glasgow. It was a speculative purchase from Judd Books in Camden.
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A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice.
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