Domestic Violets, Matthew Norman
Domestic Violets, Matthew Norman
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Domestic Violets
A Novel

Author: Matthew Norman

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 11 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2011


Synopsis

“Hystericaland often touching. . . . Domestic Violets is a fast, fun, hilariousread."" —Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and DrinkingCloser to HomeInthe tradition of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes Matthew Norman's Domestic Violets—adarkly comic family drama about one man’s improbable trials of love, loss, andambition; of attraction, impotence, and infidelity; and of mid-life malaise,poorly-planned revenge, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

About Matthew Norman

Matthew Norman is an advertising copywriter. He lives with his wife and daughter in Baltimore. Domestic Violets is his first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on October 07, 2016

I enjoyed this book and would have given it four stars, had I not hated the ending so much. The characters were wonderful, including the dog, but especially the father. By the end, I wanted something positive to happen to the main character but I think something bad happened to him, only it was pain......more

Goodreads review by Robert on August 30, 2013

Tom Violet is my new literary superhero. This man is fan-fucking-tastic. He’s a god among the rest of us mere mortals with his smartass attitude, literary pedigree (his dad is Curtis Violet, the greatest writer of the modern era, at least according to himself), ability to attract women more than ten......more