mono_vox (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mono_vox) wrote,@ 2007-12-01 17:06:00 |
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50 books in 1 year - # 44
The End of Alice
by A.M. Homes
The End of Alice
by A.M. Homes
I approached this book with caution, wondering what horrific things it contained, but was won over by the reviews on the back, and I’m glad I picked it up.
Apparently this book cause outrage when it was published in the US and on the surface, it’s obvious why it would. I mean, a book narrated by a convicted child killer which details his correspondence with a wannabe (female) paedophile – well, it doesn’t take a genius to see why.
It is brutally honest and made me cringe at the depictions of prison life, horrific childhood incidents and the crimes which got the narrator in jail, if only for his intense concentration on bodily functions and fluids.
I wasn’t sure whether to believe the narrator recollection of his time with Alice - it felt like he believed that was what happened, but as a man who’s spent over two decades being inside jail, I wasn’t so sure.
This is a very bold book - a story which gets more complicated and riveting as it goes on – and one which is written with style and guts.
