Alex Alvarez

The End of It All: a Novel Alex Alvarez

Vincent Miles sat on a low ancient seawall feeling wholly restored. To what exactly he had been restored, he couldn't say. He only sensed that he had felt like this before - light and content and nothing more. If he tried to picture something more, he would surely see a world of sorrow and doubt. There was none of that here, not now. The view was everything and everything was the view. From here he could only more on, to some kind of summit, a climax coming his way . . . Vincent is a young, successful actor, but his romantic relationships have been utter failures. Spiritually derailed from another failed relationship, Vincent takes a trip to the Adriatic coast to find his way again. It is here that Vincent begins to interpret the fortuitous signs which lead him to Serbia, then back to New York City, and finally to Chicago - all in a quest to reach "the one" This is a story of the various postures of love and friendship, a story of a young person's optimism and perseverance in an ineffectual world.