The End of Alice - Softcover

A. M. Homes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847087256 ISBN 13: 9781847087256

Publisher: Granta Books, 2013

Synopsis

End of Alice

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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: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847087256
• ISBN 13: 9781847087256
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256