The End of Youth - Paperback

by Rebecca Brown (Author)

The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In Afraid of the Dark, a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of Description of a Struggle finds that love can be brutal. The Smokers examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim.

Author Biography

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.