The End - Hardcover

Scibona, Salvatore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555974988 ISBN 13: 9781555974985

Publisher: Graywolf Pr, 2008

Synopsis

A brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an Ohio carnival

A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in Ohio. The man is Rocco LaGrassa, and his many years of dogged labor, paternal devotion, and steadfast Christian faith are about to come to a crashing end. He is the first of many exquisitely drawn characters we meet that day, each of whom will come to their own conclusion.

The End by Salvatore Scibona follows an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy, a jeweler dramatically into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives. Against a background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, we at last return to August 15, 1953, and see everything Rocco saw and vastly more through the eyes of various characters in the crowds.

The End is the unforgettable debut of a singular new American novelist.

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Review:

"A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which "The End" is only the beginning."
--Annie Dillard

“A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona’s radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which "The End" is only the beginning.”
—Annie Dillard

A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which The End is only the beginning. Annie Dillard"

Book Description:

Set in 1950s American and written in simple, beautiful prose, this is an award-winning novel about the ways in which tragedy can distort and interlink human lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1555974988
• ISBN 13: 9781555974985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297