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The End of Alice: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: A.m. Homes
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 891327
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0684815281
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684815282
ASIN: 0684815281
Publication Date: March 4, 1996
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Amazon.com Review
A novel that shines a flashlight under the bed of suburban perversity. A. M. Homes, whom the N.Y. Times Book Review calls "exhilaratingly perverse," lures us into a Nabokovian world where characters both repellent and seductive conduct forays into the dark limits of their obsessions.
Product Description
A riveting account of sexual addiction and murder is set inside the mind of a violent sex offender now in his twenty-third year of confinement, as told to a nineteen-year-old college girl, presently preying on a young boy herself, with whom he corresponds. 30,000 first printing.
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 Fail. December 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I get it, you're trying to be sick and force us into the mind of a total sicko pedophile, but get over it... the shock value here is pretty thin. Though I did cringe at some of the grotesqueness of certain sexual occurrences, I couldn't help but laugh at most of it.
This is what I imagine you'd get if the Marquis de Sade and Penthouse Forums had a child together. Actually, it seems like a child wrote it. Some perverse weirdo that writes stories to his/her self and keeps it under their mattress, adding a little more to it each day. Stylistically, I guess it's trying to be unique. The story told from a prisoner. The letters to the prisoner from a 19 year old. The interpretation of these events as told through the prisoner. Prisoner flashbacks. It's just scatterbrained writing, not tangible enough.
It's no "Justine", "Story of O", and certainly not anywhere near "Lolita". In fact, I think this book is nothing more than a somewhat glorified piece of pulp and belongs more appropriately in piles of mass market paperbacks in the "literature" section of your local pornography shop.
I tried, made it over half way, but I couldn't finish.
 Brilliant November 15, 2007
I dont even know where to begin, all I can say is this book is utterly moving and amazing. The End of Alice is not for the faint of heart might I add; it is incredibly disturbing, which I find makes it all the more readable. It is a story that would shock readers of every aspect and leave them appalled when they finish it. The End of Alice deals with a young girl who has sexual feelings and later on sexual relations with young boys. She writes to a man in prison, he too is a pedophile but has a thing for little girls. The story is a disturbing read about these two peoples lives and is a book I think should be read. A.M. Homes talks about things we all choose to dismiss because they are to unbearable to think about. She throws it in our face and smacks our hearts around. The End of Alice is not for the mother, the young or the weak hearted. This is a story that has stuck to me to this day. This is one I will never forget. Readers beware, A.M. Homes will rip through you like never before.
A Beautiful Tale of Love and Loss September 15, 2007
This is an incredibly beautiful written novel about a subject that is quite the opposite. Digustingly written from the viewpoint of the absolute perverse, one cannot help but be drawn in; becomming a strange participant in a revolting, yet obsessive tale. If you have guts, this may be for you, but this book is certainly not for the faint of heart. Beware if you choose to read this work, you will be disgusted and intrigued all at once.
 Daring June 15, 2007
How can you categorise a book like this? You just can't. Homes is incredibly talented. She gives this person a voice of his own, without prejudice, without judgement. No, the story isn't easy to read neither is it easy to comprehend how someone like this works, but at least she gives him a voice that doesn't create pity in the reader, nor disgust. It is as honest as it can be, and extremely well written. I highly recommend this book.
There are those.... May 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
...who will read this book based entirely on reviewers' accounts of its graphic, morally outrageous and disgusting nature. People like me. People who can't abate their curiousity by not looking when passing by a car accident.
And then there are those who will determine that the author is vile for committing the shameful act of making the monster into a human being. Those are the ones who also crane their necks to see car accidents, but refuse to admit it.
And then there are those - like me - who will read the book and think, "I have just read something amazing." And then we realize that it is not meaningless and detestable and gruesome as promised. Instead, we see that this is a remarkable and imaginative creative writing lesson-gone-wrong that could only go right in the hands of this very capable author.
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