The End of Everything: A Novel

The End of Everything: A Novel

by Megan Abbott

Narrated by Emily Bauer

Unabridged — 8 hours, 27 minutes

The End of Everything: A Novel

The End of Everything: A Novel

by Megan Abbott

Narrated by Emily Bauer

Unabridged — 8 hours, 27 minutes

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Overview

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom-presumably-there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger?

Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.


Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Stirring...[a] storytelling feat."—New York Times

"A haunting story...evoke[s] the furtive blossoming of adolescent sexuality...that lies beneath the ice cream shops and sprinklered lawns of '80s suburbia."—Entertainment Weekly

"Fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson will welcome Abbott's haunting psychological thriller ... Abbott expertly captures the nuances of lost innocence and childhood friendships, without ever losing an undercurrent of menace."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"A mesmerizing psychological thriller and a freshly imagined coming-of-age story, will draw comparisons to The Lovely Bones."—Los Angeles Times

"THE END OF EVERYTHING will haunt you as only a modern-day Lolita can."—Huffington Post

"The writing is anything but typical, as Abbott's inventive use of language to build imagery reads more like poetry than prose."—Boston Globe

"A sensitive, unconventional tale about the infinitely complex mystery of sexual awakening that lingers in the mind long after the book is finished."—The Guardian (UK)

"THE END OF EVERYTHING is Abbott's most refined and rapturous offering yet."—Los Angeles Review of Books

"An accomplished psychological thriller... a highly skilful novel, taut, addictive, full of stuff to keep you hungrily reading."—Sunday Times of London

Laura Wilson

"A sensitive, unconventional tale about the infinitely complex mystery of sexual awakening that lingers in the mind long after the book is finished."

Hallie Ephron

"The writing is anything but typical, as Abbott's inventive use of language to build imagery reads more like poetry than prose...The story veers from the beaten track as well, deftly skirting the familiar 'adolescent girl as victim' scenario and exploring, instead, the power games that young women engage in with much older men...games in which there are unwritten rules and exquisite danger for all who play."

Carole Mallory

"Noir triumph...In wonderfully descriptive prose, Abbott weaves a tale of intrigue...It will haunt you as only a modern-day Lolita can."

Leah Greenblatt

"Abbott...evoke[s] the furtive blossoming of adolescent sexuality and the murk that lies beneath the ice cream shops and sprinklered lawns of '80s suburbia...A haunting story."

Susannah Meadows

"Stirring...[a] storytelling feat."

Sunday Times of London

"An accomplished psychological thriller... a highly skilful novel, taut, addictive, full of stuff to keep you hungrily reading."

Los Angeles Review of Books

"THE END OF EVERYTHING is Abbott's most refined and rapturous offering yet."

The Guardian (UK)

"A sensitive, unconventional tale about the infinitely complex mystery of sexual awakening that lingers in the mind long after the book is finished."

Boston Globe

"The writing is anything but typical, as Abbott's inventive use of language to build imagery reads more like poetry than prose."

Huffington Post

"THE END OF EVERYTHING will haunt you as only a modern-day Lolita can."

Los Angeles Times

"A mesmerizing psychological thriller and a freshly imagined coming-of-age story, will draw comparisons to The Lovely Bones."

Entertainment Weekly

"A haunting story...evoke[s] the furtive blossoming of adolescent sexuality...that lies beneath the ice cream shops and sprinklered lawns of '80s suburbia."

New York Times

"Stirring...[a] storytelling feat."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940169901979
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date: 07/07/2011
Edition description: Unabridged
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