The End - Hardcover

Salvatore Scibona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224091492 ISBN 13: 9780224091497

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2010

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

About the Author:

Salvatore Scibona’s first book, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library and the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing. He was awarded a 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was included in the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of writers to watch. The End is published or forthcoming in seven languages.  Scibona's short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Award.  His work has appeared in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Divisione di la Repubblica, Satisfiction, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. A graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he administers the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Review:

"A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which "The End" is only the beginning."
--Annie Dillard

"Lyrical...Bold...Beautiful."
-"The Boston Globe"
"Exquisitely rendered...Does not open up so much as catch and slowly reel in."
-"Los Angeles Times"
"Rhapsodic...Unflinching...Masterful...a novel unafraid to split into the breastplate of humankind and aim a floodlight at the demons dancing there."
-"Southern Review"
"Engulfing. Entangled. Fate-laden. Flinty."
- "Esquire"
"Precise yet inventive...[Scibona] fleshes out a scrabbling immigrant Cleveland."
-"The American Book Review"
"Like no other contemporary writer...A concordance of the immigrant experience from the beautiful to the brutal and everything in between."
-ZZ Packer, author of "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
"Possibly the only novel I've ever read that legitimately deserves to be called Bellovian. And that's no small claim."
-"Kenyon Review"
"Breathtaking...Think not only Faulkner, but also T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce."
- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0224091492
• ISBN 13: 9780224091497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296