The end of me / Alfred Hayes ; introduction by Paul Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985, author.

Contributor:

Bailey, Paul, 1937- writer of introduction.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Screenwriters--Fiction.

Screenwriters.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 178 pages ; 21 cm.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers. Asher's career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. It's not a question of money; it's a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of an arch young poet, Michael, Asher revisits the streets and tenements of the Lower East Side where he spent his childhood, though little remains of THE past. Michael introduces him to Aurora, perhaps his girlfriend, who, to Asher's surprise, seems bent on pursuing him, too. Soon the older man and his edgy young companions are caught up in a slow, strange, almost ritualized dance of deceit and desire. The End of Me, a successor to In Love and Her Face for the World to See, can be seen as the final panel of a triptych in which Alfred Hayes anatomizes, with a cool precision and laconic lyricism that are all his own, the failure of modern love. The last scene is the starkest of all" -- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Hayes, Alfred, 1911-1985, The end of me

ISBN:

9781681374338

1681374331

OCLC:

1110439928