A. M. Homes

'The End of Alice' treads the wafer-thin line between evil and the everyday. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles, one, the narrator, is a middle-aged child-killer serving his 23rd year in prison. The other is a 19 year old woman intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy.

The End of Alice

Elizabeth Scott

Catherine Jauch

A.M. Homes

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.

The End of Alice

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