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.
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
About the Author
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels Jack and In a Country of Mothers, the short story collection The Safety of Objects, and Appendix A, an artists's book. She lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
