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/5(). A.M. Homes's superlative new novel, The End of Alice (Scribner), is a book in that tradition. It is 30 years since a few psychologists and researchers first put forward the radical theory that in some cases of pedophilia, where an adult and a child form some kind of sexual bond, it can be the child who is the initiator, promoting his or her own seduction. A.M. Homes (first name Amy) is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of A/5.
A few years ago, AM Homes, still probably best known for her upmarket paedophile shocker The End of Alice, took an unexpected swerve into feel-good bltadwin.ru until , she was mainly a. Featured Reviews * Home * Book Reviews * Back issues reviewed December The End of Alice by A.M. Homes Scribner US ; Anchor UK This third novel by US author A. M. Homes was destined to provoke controversy. 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 bltadwin.ruent 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.
The End of Alice is a novel by American writer A. M. Homes. It was published in the United States by Scribner and in the United Kingdom by Anchor Books. The story is narrated mostly by a middle-aged pedophile and child killer who is serving a life sentence. He receives correspondence from a year-old girl who plans to seduce a year-old neighborhood boy. The child killer encourages her and gives her tips on seducing children. He delights in the girl's letters detailing her progress. The. 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, Read Full Overview. Edition Details. Professional Reviews. 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.
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