The End
Published on 2. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-09-955576-6 (ISBN)
Description
On August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, Ohio, the baker Rocco LaGrassa receives a devastating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Rocco's dogged life is transformed.
This unforgettable debut novel follows Rocco, an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy and a jeweller deep into the heart of a crime that will twist all of their lives.
A National Book Award Finalist.
This unforgettable debut novel follows Rocco, an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy and a jeweller deep into the heart of a crime that will twist all of their lives.
A National Book Award Finalist.
Reviews / Votes
"Scibona loves language and recognizes the power of using the right word. He seems better educated than most American writers, with a strong vocabulary and rich ideas that urge him to build complex sentences.... To the reader's enrichment, The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways" -- Annie Proulx * Guardian * "Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks" -- Rosemary Goring * Herald * "It may have taken a while for Scibona to get to this side of the Atlantic, but The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice" -- Stuart Evers * Daily Telegraph * "This is an extraordinary novel about the experience of immigration; unsentimental and beautifully written" -- Kate Saunders * The Times * "Its moments of sharply realised emotional pull and gentle beauty reel you in" * Metro *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-955576-6 (9780099555766)
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Salvatore Scibona's first book, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award; and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing. He was awarded a 2009 Whiting Writers' Award. In 2010, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was included in the New Yorker's '20 Under 40' list of writers to watch.