The End Of Alice [Paperback]

From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author ofMay 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 inThe End of Alicea novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive. With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone. --Los Angeles Times The book shocks, mesmerizes, repels, and titillates, erupting at one unforgettable point in a harrowing flashback that does for baths what Alfred Hitchcock'sPsychodid for showers. --Vanity Fair A breathtaking new novel...certain to cause controversy. --Elle Superlative...undeniably shocking...superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist. --Vogue As dark and treacherous as ice on the highway...A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything. -- Michael Cunningham, author ofThe Hours