"The End of Alice" by A.M. Homes is a deeply disturbing and provocative novel that delves into the unsettling world of pedophilia. The story follows an imprisoned pedophile who engages in an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old girl, both revealing and reveling in their obsessive desires. Through graphic descriptions and disturbing imagery, the author portrays the complexities and horrors of the characters' past and present actions, creating a novel that is part romance, part horror story, both unnerving and seductive.
Homes skillfully handles the sensitive subject matter of pedophilia with dexterity, neither sensationalizing nor glossing over the gravity of the characters' actions. is described as uncomfortable yet engrossing, challenging readers to confront the dark and twisted minds of the protagonists while also offering insights into the causes that lead to such monstrous behavior.
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Content warnings include high levels of graphic sexual violence, pedophilia, and disturbing imagery.
From The Publisher:
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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Man....I am really not sure how I feel about this book. Have you read Tampa? It's similar where I feel the pedophilia was was too sexualized. I understand the point of the story but I feel it went just a step too far. I almost DNFd a few times but instead skipped ahead. I did like the story.
What can you read after
The End of Alice?
About the Author:
A. M. Homes is the author of This Book Will Save Your Life,
Things You Should Know, Music for Torching, In a Country of Mothers, The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill. Recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, she is a Vanity Fair contributing editor and publishes in The New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, McSweeney's, Artforum, and The New York Times.
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