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The End

Salvatore Scibona

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#3319 of 8,085 books · #502 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (2008).

The End won the National Book Award Finalist designation. On August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, Ohio, the baker Rocco LaGrassa receives a devastating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Rocco's dogged life is transformed. This unforgettable debut novel follows Rocco, an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy and a jeweller deep into the heart of a crime that will twist all of their lives.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781446484296
Topics
Grief and lossImmigrant community lifeInterconnected lives and crime

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