Product Description
Treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday. This 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.
Amazon Review
A novel that shines a flashlight under the bed of suburban perversity. A.M. Homes, whom the N.Y. Times Book Review calls "exhilaratingly perverse", lures us into a Nabokovian world where characters both repellent and seductive conduct forays into the dark depths of their obsessions.
Reviews:
rebecca (United Kingdom) (2009/01/17): I definitely liked this book, although I wouldn't say I found it 'enjoyable'... it makes very difficult reading in some parts. It has similarities to 'Lolita' in some aspects such as the style of narration.
