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The End of Alice by A. M. Homes (1997)

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Author: A. M. HomesFormat: --
Publisher: ScribnerISBN-10: 0684827107
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780684827100
Educational Level: CollegeProduct Type: Textbook
Publication Year: 1997Subject: Psychology
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A novel narrated by a Humbert Humbert-like character, Chappy, a voyeur and murderer with a taste for young girls, who corresponds with a college student who has a passion for young boys.

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Length:272 pages
Height:8.0 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:0.8 in.
Weight:11.2 oz.

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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 co-ed. 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, repellent, and seductive.
When an imprisoned pedophile is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a 19-year-old suburban co-ed, the two reveal--and revel in--their obsessive desires. Part romance, part horror story, "The End Of Alice" is at once unnerving, repellent, and seductive.

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"A. M. Homes has attempted to write a kind of updated version of 'Lolita', borrowing from Nabokov superficial motifs, images, and narrative strategies. The novel she has written, however, has nothing else in common with 'Lolita' and everything in common with Nabokov's definition of modern pornography, namely, a lubricious and single-minded pursuit of sensationalism and sensation."
New York Times Book Review - Michiko Kakutani (02/23/1996)

"Her porno/graphic violence may turn the unwary stomach...We expect this in slash movies and trash fiction; in a literary novel, it's still shocking enough to get Homes much more hype than she got for her previous novels...Homes has crafted an elaborately rhetorical voice for her narrator, but ultimately he's a determinist windup toy.... Such motivation might be true to life, but it's trite in literature....Homes's worst move is to slight her best character, a disturbed college girl who...largely disappears....In sticking with her sub-Humbert Humbert, Homes shortchanges a more original, less contrived story. But without the gore and the hype, would anybody be reading it?"
Newsweek - David Gates (03/04/1996)

"What distinguishes this book is Homes's refusal to settle for cleverness."
Voice Literary Supplement - Heather Lewis 

"'The End of Alice' is dark and treacherous as ice on a highway. It establishes A.M. Homes as one of the bravest, most terrifying writers working today. She never plays it safe, and it begins to look as if she can do most anything."
book jacket - Michael Cunningham 

"'Alice' cannot be tossed off as another 'American Psycho.'...Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies."
Time - Ginia Bellafante 

"With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone."
Los Angeles Times - Elizabeth Houghton 

"A literary serial-killer novel, by turns sensational and clever, smutty and powerful...a lurid but weirdly arch page-turner."
King 

"A writer with an audacious imagination invents a monstrous criminal with a sense of humor. A breathtaking new novel...certain to cause controversy. Homes manages--with language both lyrical and frighteningly direst--to usher the reader into the horrific landscape of a disturbed mind, and at the same time, of a funny, vulnerable, ultimately very sad human being."
Bellafante 

"Intriguing and challenging...full of tantalizing ideas."
Bellafante 


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Used by our daughter at Columbia College of Chicago

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