The book is about a jailed petifile in his 20 third year in a maximum security prison. He's there after brutally raping and murdering a young girl named alice. The new york times stated that the book was exhilaratingly perverse, luring us into the lives of characters simultaneously repellent and seductive. I have a copy o first edition, signed copy i went to see you read of the end of alice. You wrote that in 19 96.