title: The End of Alice: A Novel
author:  A.M. Homes 
description: A novel that shines a flashlight under the bed of suburban perversity. A. M. Homes, whom the <i>N.Y. Times Book Review</i> calls "exhilaratingly perverse," lures us into a <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Nabokov%2C%20Vladimir/${0}">Nabokovian</a> world where characters both repellent and seductive conduct forays into the dark limits of their obsessions.
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  Alice's Story
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
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  SMASHWORDS
  
  
  EDITION
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
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