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Graywolf Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 1555974988
EAN: 9781555974985
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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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