"The End of Alice" treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles: one, the narrator, is a middle-aged child-killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; the other, his bland-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, is a nineteenth-year-old woman intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator's monstrous character emerges.
- ISBN10 1439125201
- ISBN13 9781439125205
- Publish Date 23 October 2012 (first published 24 February 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Scribner Book Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English