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

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Manusförfattande för film  (sao)

Män och kvinnor  (sao)

Triangeldramer  (sao)

Medelålders män  (sao)

Man-woman relationships  (lcsh)

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)  (LCSH)

Middle aged men  (LCSH)

Motion picture authorship  (LCSH)

New York (N.Y.)  -- Fiction. (LCSH)

Genre

Romaner  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Heq.01 Skönlitteratur: amerikansk: romaner och noveller

Klassifikation

813/.52 (DDC)

Heq.01 (kssb/8)