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The End of Alice

A.M. Homes

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.6 | 6697 Users | 818 Reviews

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Title	:	The End of Alice
Author	:	A.M. Homes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	February 18th 1997 by Scribner (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Horror. Contemporary. Mystery. Crime

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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.

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Original Title:	The End of Alice
ISBN:	0684827107 (ISBN13: 9780684827100)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.6 From 6697 Users | 818 Reviews

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I suppose I picked up this book because I felt something akin to the emotion of having been "double-dog-dared". I have read a few of A.M Homes short stories (the one that springs to mind is the one about the boy and the barbie doll), and enjoyed them immensely, and greatly admired her writing style and unusual subject matter. Like a lot of people (whether or not they admit it), I do enjoy being horrified, grossed out, disgusted and mildly traumatized by art. Books and movies that people hype as



As you've probably guessed by the 5 stars, I loved it. Far more than I expected to. I was particularly impressed with the writing, and that there was plenty of room for interpretation. I don't like being spoon-fed stories. I've included some of my thoughts below, cobbled together from a Chaos Reading group read that we did in 2014. For the full group discussion, including spoilers, go here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...*What elements in the writing style did you like/dislike?I loved

The subject matter doesn't bother me, I just didn't like the writing style.

Talk about pushing the buck - Holmes has really done it with this one. I felt like a little kid sneaking around my parents' room reading something I shouldn't. My cheeks flushed red with each page I turned as I was almost ashamed to be sucked into such a dark twisted world that was as oddly fascinating as it was repulsive. And yet, I couldn't put it down until I was finished almost 5 hours later. I want to be clear this wasn't a smutty masturbatory collection of fantasies for child molesters.

I had high hopes for this book, but I gave up on it quickly. The last straw was this little rant, over 400 words to describe boys eating snacks.If you like this type of verbal diarrhea, then this book is for you."Across the street, the feral pack joyously jams fistfuls of fried, dried, potato, corn frizzle-drizzle doo into their pubescenthence ever-hungrychops, cramming the orifice with far more than it can possibly hold. Chunks, giant crumbs of half-chewed food, fall over them like hail, like

I'm struggling with the words too for this one!! I don't get it!! It was a birthday buy so I really want to read and like it!!!