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Book SynopsisTHE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in prison. The other, his seemingly sweet admirer, is a nineteen-year-old woman, intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Teetering on the knife's edge between the American Dream and the American Nightmare, THE END OF ALICE unpicks the darkness of inconceivable desire, and the destruction and horror left in its wake.
Trade ReviewA.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
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] 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 *
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
With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone * Los Angeles Times *
Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other * TLS *
Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words * Vogue *
Chillingly precise and almost beautiful -- Will Self
I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible. -- Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up * Observer *
Table of Contents'A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything' - Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Hours'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] 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
