Michael Cunningham Libri

Solo la letteratura può restituire un senso alle nostre vite confuse e sghembe. Anzi, la letteratura è il solo specchio dentro cui la vita, riflettendosi, giunge per un momento a dire se stessa. È l'idea centrale di questo romanzo. Tre donne lo abitano. La prima è una donna famosa, una scrittrice famosa: Virginia Woolf, ritratta a un passo dal suicidio, nel 1941, e poi, a ritroso nel tempo, mentre gioca col dèmone della sua scrittura. Le altre due sono donne che abitano luoghi e tempi diversi. Clarissa Vaughan, un editor newyorkese di oggi e Laura Brown, una casalinga californiana dell'immediato dopoguerra.

Peter e Rebecca Harris: due quarantenni, nati e cresciuti a New York, al culmine delle loro carriere: gallerista lui, editor lei. Ricchi, con una figlia universitaria a Boston, pieni di amici, sono ammirati e invidiati da tutti: sembrano felici. Un giorno, però, va a trovarli il fratello di Rebecca, molto più giovane di lei: Ethan (detto in famiglia Mizzy, “l’errore”). Il ragazzo è un bellissimo ventitreenne, con una storia di droga alle spalle, in cerca di una strada. Accanto a lui, Peter inizia a interrogarsi sull’arte, gli artisti, il lavoro, il successo – il suo mondo, insomma, che tanto faticosamente si è costruito – e, mentre la confusione aumenta, inizia anche a sentirsi sempre più attratto da lui. L’autore di “Le ore” torna con un romanzo che è un viaggio nei bisogni e nei desideri più profondi dell’uomo: qual è il posto dell’amore nelle nostre vite? e la Bellezza quanto può contare nella nostra esistenza?

Jonathan e Bobby: sono amici inseparabili e poi confidenti e amanti nel corso di un’appassionata e difficile adolescenza a Cleveland, Ohio. La vita, la maturità e il capriccio del destino li separano, per poi farli incontrare a New York solo anni più tardi. Jonathan ora vive con una donna, Clare, la sua amica più cara, la sua compagna più vera. Bobby si trasferisce a casa dei due e, quando comincia una relazione con la ragazza, gli equilibri sentimentali e psicologici dei tre ne vengono lentamente ma inesorabilmente sconvolti. Romando d’esordio dell’autore di Le ore e Carne e sangue, Una casa alla fine del mondo racconta le incertezze dell’amore e la ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio in un mondo che si sforza di non crollare sotto il peso delle convezioni che si sfaldano. Romantico, ribelle, spregiudicato, è stato pubblicato in sedici paesi, e ha fatto conoscere al mondo il talento letterario di Michael Cunningham

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan. There's Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

An extraordinary travel guide to Provincetown, a small town at the tip of Cape Cod, known as the first landing of the Pilgrims and a haven for outsiders and visionaries. Michael Cunningham, enchanted by the town's charm, invites readers to explore his favorite place amidst sand and sea.

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.

Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.

An epic tale of three generations of an American family--and the ambition, violence, deceptions and hard-won love that shapes their lives. Rich in vivid details and masterfully crafted characters' lives, and narrated in a voice of great emotional power and sensitivity, Flesh and Blood is an unforgettable, moving and stunning portrait of contemporary America.

'Unsparing and tender' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn 'A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. In a cosy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. A married couple does their best to hide their growing rift from their children. A brother seeks solace from his break-up in a glamorous online avatar. A son takes his first uncertain steps towards independence, and a daughter obsesses over keeping her family safe. Set on the same day for three consecutive years and against the unsettling backdrop of the pandemic, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on growing older, love and loss and the limitations of family life, from the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham. 'A wrenchingly tender book' Financial Times 'Through its beautiful feel for all that's fragile and elusive in life, it finds richness and value in the most seemingly decadent, and universal, concerns' Telegraph

"A Home at the End of the World is the story of people living life without a blueprint. They are outsiders, misfits in several ways: Bobby, kind and open, but haunted; clever, gay Jonathan, unhappy with his directionless life; and fiercly independent Clare, searching for a future to match her dreams."--Cover, p [4].