A Home at the End of the World
Published on 1. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-241-95453-9 (ISBN)
Description
'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . '
Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the Seventies and Eighties.
And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.
Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the Seventies and Eighties.
And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.
Reviews / Votes
A writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace * The New York Times Book Review * Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel -- David Leavitt As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise * Mail on Sunday * Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art * The Los Angeles Times * Extremely intelligent, moving and accomplished. Cunningham has mastered the art of evoking the richness of domestic lives * Sunday Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-95453-9 (9780241954539)
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Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World
E-Book
10/2018
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€8.99
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Person
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days and By Nightfall. He lives in New York.