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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)

The End of the Alphabet

C.S. Richardson

Hardcover | Pages: 139 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 2537 Users | 539 Reviews

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Title	:	The End of the Alphabet
Author	:	C.S. Richardson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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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I really, really, really wanted to love this book. And in some ways I did but just not enough. The story idea is beautiful. A man finds our that he is dying and only has one month to live. Long obsessed with the alphabet (his initials are A.Z. and his wife's initials are Z.A.) he decides that he is going to travel around the world with his wife for his last month and visit a different place that begins with each letter of the alphabet a-z, each day. By I he is just too sick to continue and they

3 ⭐This is not my kind of book. I got it from a friend, thinking it was originally written in French and seeing how thin it was. I figured that, even if I didnt like it, it would be short enough for me to finish it anyways. And thats what I did.I wouldnt say it was good. But it wasnt bad either. A kind of limbo between the two. Its poetic, but not in verse. Its cute and sad, but not enough to make me cry. It just is.

A clever tale with quirky lovable characters (reminiscent of A Man Called Ove) and a reminder that we cannot buy more time. Travel till the health or the wealth run out.

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

What a beautiful story. Simply told with elegance and grace. I cried for nearly an hour.



If you wish to fill a couple of hours of your life with a nicely written weepie, this is for you. Is it a novella? It is 140 small pages, large margins, double-spaced text. I've certainly read lots of 'short stories' this length.It does consider a dilemma I've often wondered about. There are those quick deaths - one moment you are vacuuming or cooking dinner, next moment finito la musica. Death displaces life and you scarcely even have time to register it. There are the long ones, where you know