The End of Alice - Couverture rigide

Holmes, A. M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684815281 ISBN 13 : 9780684815282

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Homes AM

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'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

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684815281
• ISBN 13: 9780684815282
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 271