The End of Youth

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The End of Youth is a collection of thirteen linked stories, essays, and rants, about carrying on after the hope you had when you were young is gone. A child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. An adolescent narrator finds that love can be brutal. An adult realises that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Rebecca Brown writes with her usual spare and vivid beauty.

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A strange and wonderful first-person voice emerges from the stories of Rebecca Brown, who strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."
-- The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books of prose including The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, The Dogs, The Terrible Girls (City Lights) and The Gifts of the Body (HarperCollins). She recently co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, an anthology of writers' responses to work at the Frye Art Museum.