The End, Salvatore Scibona
The End, Salvatore Scibona
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The End

Author: Salvatore Scibona

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/29/2009


Synopsis

This debut novel from Salvatore Scibona has garnered widespread praise as a literary triumph and was a National Book Award finalist. Set in 1953 Cleveland during a carnival in the Italian immigrant neighborhood of Elephant Park, The End explores the lives of six people in the crowd and the tragedy that connects them. Fraught with racial tension and teeming with immigrant families fighting to survive, Scibona's brilliant tale lays bare this Ohio town for all to see.

Reviews

Goodreads review by SCARABOOKS on October 25, 2019

E’ un romanzo ambizioso con un taglio epico. E quindi ha i pregi e i difetti che queste caratteristiche comportano. A volte eccede nelle ambizioni, soprattutto sul piano espressivo, ma anche della complessità della struttura del racconto. Su tutto però mi pare prevalga la qualità assoluta della scri......more

Goodreads review by mike on May 22, 2008

Oh, if only there were another star to give this book. Six stars--that's my rating. I don't mean to raise expectations, but even if I do, The End is going to exceed them. This book accomplishes what I suppose all my favorite books do, maybe what every good book will do, and that is it provides you w......more

Goodreads review by John on November 20, 2008

My God, the sentences of Signore Scibona! Constructions hard-headed yet lovely, precise yet inventive: "Night, for children, was more a place than a time." And: "…Lina was a child. She lacked the natural cruelty that a conversance with the marital act encouraged one to refine." And: "The city was a......more

Goodreads review by Daniele on August 20, 2021

Esordio importante ed ambizioso di uno Scibona molto giovane. Romanzo a più voci, con flussi di coscienza e salti temporali che abbinati alla scrittura ricercata a volte appesantiscono un po' la lettura, ma tutto sommato si tratta di un ottimo prodotto. Forse merita qualcosa di più come punteggio ma l......more

Goodreads review by Gina on January 06, 2009

This novel haunted me for weeks. It takes place across the span of several decades, weaving forward and back from a single day in 1953 in Elephant Park, Ohio, in an immigrant neighborhood, and tracking multiple characters who are as doomed as any of the characters in L'Inferno.......more