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The End (Paperback)

By: Salvatore Scibona (Author)

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"MEMENTO meets AUGIE MARCH. Didion meets Hitchcock. Serpentine. Alien. American."

"...the lusciousness of the prose takes over, soothing in a just-about-to-fall-asleep way."

Publisher's note

A brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an ohio carnival
A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in Ohio. The man is Rocco LaGrassa, and his many years of dogged labor, paternal devotion, and steadfast Christian faith are about to come to a crashing end. He is the first of many exquisitely drawn characters we meet that day, each of whom will come to their own conclusion.
"" "The End" follows an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy, a jeweler--dramatically into the heart of a crime that will twist all their lives. Against a background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, we at last return to August 15, 1953, and see everything Rocco saw--and vastly more--through the eyes of various characters in the crowds.
"" "The End" is the unforgettable debut of a singular new American novelist.

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Salvatore Scibona has written his debut novel in an old-fashioned but exquisitely executed modernist style, moving effortlessly back and forth in time, and between the consciousness of the novel's six narrators. Scibona is concerned with issues of identity and internal voice as much as he is with the events taking place in the novel, which revolve around the Italian-American neighborhood of Elephant Park in Cleveland in the 1950s. The brooding descriptions of the city and the characters' reveries drift together, creating a singular sense of urban life as it might be rendered by Virginia Woolf or T.S. Eliot. THE END was a surprise nomination for the 2008 National Book Award.

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