The End Of Alice

The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in prison. The other, his seemingly sweet admirer, is a nineteen-year-old woman, intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy.

Teetering on the knife's edge between the American Dream and the American Nightmare, The End of Alice unpicks the darkness of inconceivable desire, and the destruction and horror left in its wake.

A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
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] 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
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
With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone Los Angeles Times
Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other TLS
Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words Vogue
Chillingly precise and almost beautiful -- Will Self
I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible. -- Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up Observer

A. M. Homes is the author of the novels, May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers and Jack, and three collections of short stories, Days of Awe, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City.

AM Homes' most infamous novel about the manifestations of forbidden desire and its terrible consequences. The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in prison. The other, his seemingly sweet admirer, is a nineteen-year-old woman, intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Teetering on the knife's edge between the American Dream and the American Nightmare, The End of Alice unpicks the darkness of inconceivable desire, and the destruction and horror left in its wake.

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