The End Of Alice

by A.M. Homes

Overview

From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven.

Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684827100
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	02/18/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	72,110
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

A. M. Homes is the author of This Book Will Save Your Life,
Things You Should Know, Music for Torching, In a Country of Mothers, The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill. Recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, she is a Vanity Fair contributing editor and publishes in The New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, McSweeney's, Artforum, and The New York Times.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

December 18, 1961

Place of Birth:

Washington, D.C.

Education:

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1985; M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers¿ Workshop

Editorial Reviews

"With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone." — Los Angeles Times

"The book shocks, mesmerizes, repels, and titillates, erupting at one unforgettable point in a harrowing flashback that does for baths what Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho did for showers." — Vanity Fair

"A breathtaking new novel...certain to cause controversy." — Elle

"Superlative...undeniably shocking...superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist." — Vogue

"As dark and treacherous as ice on the highway...A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything." — Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

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