The End of Alice - Hardcover

Holmes, A. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684815281 ISBN 13: 9780684815282

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

The author of In a Country of Mothers examines the dark, disturbing corners of an American psyche that refuses to know itself despite a plethora of cover stories on abuse and of 12-step programs for sexual addicts. Set inside the head of a violent sex offender now in his 23rd year of confinement, The End of Alice masterfully captures the decadent, sometimes violent, aspects of sexual obsession and desire.

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Review:

A novel that shines a flashlight under the bed of suburban perversity. A.M. Homes, whom the N.Y. Times Book Review calls "exhilaratingly perverse", lures us into a Nabokovian world where characters both repellent and seductive conduct forays into the dark depths of their obsessions.

Review:

'A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything' Michael Cunningham * '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] A.M. 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 * 'A.M. 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 * 'Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words' --Vogue

'I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible.' --Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684815281
• ISBN 13: 9780684815282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271