The End: A Novel - Softcover

"A masterful novel set amid racial upheaval in 1950s America during the flight of second-generation immigrants from their once-necessary ghettos. Full of wisdom, consequence, and grace, Salvatore Scibona's radiant debut brims with the promise of a remarkable literary career, of which The End is only the beginning." - Annie Dillard

"Lyrical... Bold... Beautiful." - The Boston Globe

"Exquisitely rendered... Does not open up so much as catch and slowly reel in." - Los Angeles Times

"Rhapsodic... Unflinching... Masterful... A novel unafraid to split into the breastplate of humankind and aim a floodlight at the demons dancing there." - Southern Review

"Engulfing. Entangled. Fate-laden. Flinty." - Esquire

"Precise yet inventive...[Scibona] fleshes out a scrabbling immigrant Cleveland." - The American Book Review

"Like no other contemporary writer...A concordance of the immigrant experience from the beautiful to the brutal and everything in between." - ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

"Possibly the only novel I've ever read that legitimately deserves to be called Bellovian. And that's no small claim." - Kenyon Review

"Breathtaking... Think not only Faulkner, but also T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Scibona loves language and recognizes the power of using the right word. He seems better educated than most American writers, with a strong vocabulary and rich ideas that urge him to build complex sentences.... To the reader's enrichment, The End is an outstanding work in all the right ways" - Annie Proulx, The Guardian

"Virtuosic... There is an intensity of purpose to Salvatore Scibona's endeavor that is decidedly uncommon... Scibona is a deft and intricate plotter... There is no doubt whatsoever of the beauty or brilliance of Scibona's writing... The free flow of thought is almost miraculously caught." - Olivia Laing, The Observer

"Scibona is a gutsy, heart-and-soul writer, unafraid of emotion and ready to take risks." - Rosemary Goring, Herald (UK)

"It may have taken a while for Scibona to get to this side of the Atlantic, but The End suggests this is the beginning of a fascinating career from an important new American voice." - Stuart Evers, Daily Telegraph (UK)

"This is an extraordinary novel about the experience of immigration; unsentimental and beautifully written." -- Kate Saunders, The Times (UK)

"Its moments of sharply realized emotional pull and gentle beauty reel you in." -- Metro (UK)

Follows a series of characters from an Italian immigrant community in 1950s Ohio as the events of a single day play out from their varied perspectives.