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The End of the Alphabet

C.S. Richardson

Hardcover | Pages: 139 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 2537 Users | 539 Reviews

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Original Title:	The End of the Alphabet
ISBN:	0385663404 (ISBN13: 9780385663403)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Caribbean and Canada (2008)

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Ambrose Zephyr is a contented man. He shares a book-laden Victorian house with his loving wife, Zipper. He owns two suits, one of which he was married in. He is a courageous eater, save brussels sprouts. His knowledge of wine is vague and best defined as Napa, good; Australian, better; French, better still. Kir royale is his drink of occasion. For an Englishman he makes a poor cup of tea. He believes women are quantifiably wiser than men, and would never give Zipper the slightest reason to mistrust him or question his love. Zipper simply describes Ambrose as the only man she has ever loved. Without adjustment. Then, just as he is turning fifty, Ambrose is told by his doctor that he has one month to live. Reeling from the news, he and Zipper embark on a whirlwind expedition to the places he has most loved or has always longed to visit, from A to Z, Amsterdam to Zanzibar. As they travel to Italian piazzas, Turkish baths, and other romantic destinations, all beautifully evoked by the author, Zipper struggles to deal with the grand unfairness of their circumstances as she buoys Ambrose with her gentle affection and humor. Meanwhile, Ambrose reflects on his life, one well lived, and comes to understand that death, like life, will be made bearable by the strength and grace of their devotion. Richardson’s lovely prose comes alive with an honesty and intensity that will leave you breathless and inspired by the simple beauty and power of love. The End of the Alphabet is a timeless, resonant exploration of the nature of love, loss, and life.

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Title	:	The End of the Alphabet
Author	:	C.S. Richardson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 139 pages
Published	:	January 23rd 2007 by Doubleday Canada (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Literary Fiction. Travel. Romance. Adult Fiction

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Review from 2009:I love this book. A quick read..but so much crammed into a small volume. I've read it and now, as with all the books I truly love, it's now my aim to own it.Mission accomplished! I now own it in the hardback version pictured here.Review from 9/10/13:The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson is a gorgeous gem of a book. I originally read this back in 2009 and am glad that the 2013 Bingo Reading Challenge gave me a reason to reread. It's a book that I find myself recommending

At first I thought this was a "cute" book. Its prose is completely unpretentious as are the characters. The presentation is unusual. One very short chapter that is only a paragraph long. Another is one long run on sentence, which fits in context. The underlying story, however, is anything but "cute". A man and his wife must face his impending death. He decides to do it by seeing the world alphabetically. 26 letters, 30 days more or less.Sometimes a book happens when it is most personally

I loved this book. Let me start by saying, this is not my typical book. I love long, perferably multi volume books, where as this is short (114 pages), most of the chapters are less than a page and most of the sentences are not even complete. I picked up this book because of the cover. I was dawn in by the simple drawing of two camels and a palm tree. I even put back a book I have been wanting to read for months in order to buy this one.I think the mark of a good book is whether or not it evokes

I guess this book proves that no two people ever read the same book.I started reading this back in Feb. but after 3 or 4 pages, I'd have to lay it aside or fall asleep. I finally forced myself to finish it today.At 119 pages, this book shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to read, but it is so slow paced and boring and the characters are just so silly that I feel like it was a waste of paper to even print this rubbish.Also, this is the first book I've ever read where the main character is

Charming, bittersweet, & heartbreaking... in all the right ways.

Glad Laura recommended this one! She encountered it as a "blind book date" with only the first line and no other details written on brown paper on the book. "This story is unlikely," is how the book begins-- but no, this is not a book about magical realism or the supernatural. I imagine a point of the book is to think through what is unlikely. Being told in your 50s you only have a month to live? Having the resources to plan a hasty trip to as many places as possible, working your way

I must admit that I particularly love books like this one. Its so lovingly odd almost like the author was told about these things called books and he then decided hed try writing one. Dont take that statement as insulting though. The End of the Alphabet is kind of refreshingly without pretention or strict structure. It reads like someone sat down and wrote something. Just because. Which is often the best kind of writing.Ambrose Zephyr has only thirty days to live, and he has decided to spend