The End Of Alice
Published on 4. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84708-725-6 (ISBN)
Description
The End of Alice treads the thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles: one, the narrator, is a middle-aged child-killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; the other, his slang-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, is a nineteen-year-old girl intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator's dangerous character emerges.
Reviews / Votes
A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours If the first major literary marker of the American dream of aspiration, potential and never-ending youth was F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical piece of doomed yearning, The Great Gatsby, its postmodern flipside [is] Homes's The End of Alice, whose paired literary voices made a grotesque harmony of two yearners after the dream of youth -- Ali Smith * Guardian * Homes instructs us about ourselves and shows us what we are blighted with, and cringe from, our compulsions, repressions, longings, glimpses of madness -- Ruth Rendell With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone * Los Angeles Times * Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other * TLS * Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words * Vogue * Chillingly precise and almost beautiful -- Will Self I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible. -- Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84708-725-6 (9781847087256)
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Person
A.M. HOMES is the author of the novels May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, two collections of short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City.