Michael Cunningham

A vision appears in the sky above wintry New York and seems to exert an influence over two brothers, in this luminous, compassionate novel from the author of The Hours.Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up; in the sky he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesnt believe in visionsor in Godbut he cant deny what hes seen.At the same time, in nearby Brooklyn, Tyler, Barretts older brother, a struggling musician, is trying to write a song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a wedding song that will not be merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love.Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers.Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of the human soul. Beautiful, unexpectedly comic and truly heartbreaking, The Snow Queen proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The HoursMichael Cunninghams luminous novel begins with a vision. Its November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesnt believe in visionsor in Godbut he cant deny what hes seen.At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barretts older brother, a struggling musician, is tryingand failingto write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love.Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul.The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

"New York, oggi. Peter, quarantenne, mercante d'arte a Manhattan, ha tutto quello che un uomo potrebbe desiderare. Un lavoro che sta per dargli nuove opportunita, un bell'appartamento, una moglie affascinante, una figlia che e andata al college. Tutto. O forse no. Forse questo non puo essere tutto. Forse alla vita di Peter manca qualcosa, il senso di un movimento, un'aspirazione, una tensione. Un pericolo. E quando nell'appartamento che Peter divide con Rebecca arriva Ethan, il fratello minore di sua moglie, un'attrazione misteriosa e inquietante sembra mettere a rischio qualsiasi parvenza di stabilita. L'autore di ""Le Ore"" ritorna con un romanzo seducente e sensuale, dalla scrittura densa e coinvolgente, che conduce il lettore sulle tracce di una Bellezza che tutto puo salvare e tutto puo distruggere. "

"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, pero, va a trovarli il fratello di Rebecca, molto piu giovane di lei: Ethan (detto in famiglia Mizzy, ""l'errore""). Il ragazzo e 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 e costruito - e, mentre la confusione aumenta, inizia anche a sentirsi sempre piu attratto da lui. L'autore di Le ore torna con un romanzo che e un viaggio nei bisogni e nei desideri piu profondi dell'uomo: qual e il posto dell'amore nelle nostre vite? e la bellezza quanto puo contare nella nostra esistenza? "

"All'apice della Rivoluzione industriale Lucas e un dodicenne costretto a prendere il posto del fratello Simon nella fonderia in cui questi ha perso la vita. È un dodicenne speciale, dotato della capacita di sentire la voce delle macchine e decifrarne gli enigmatici messaggi. La seconda parte si svolge ai giorni nostri, quando Cat Martin, che ha perso il figlio Lucas, convince un aspirante kamikaze a non farsi esplodere e, lasciandosi alle spalle il compagno Simon, lo accompagna alla scoperta di una nuova vita. Nella terza parte si giunge in un futuro popolato da androidi e alieni, dove Simon, un mutante, riscopre il senso e il valore dell'umanita e delle sue passioni grazie alle poesie di Walt Whitman, all'amicizia e all'amore. "

Una exquisita exploración de las leyes de la atracción que traspasa las fronteras de la identidad sexual con la que siempre hemos creído identificarnos. Imaginemos un apartamento exquisito y algo bohemio en Manhattan; si asomamos la cabeza, veremos a una pareja de mediana edad que toma una comida ligera en la cocina o se acaricia en el dormitorio, sin que la mujer se moleste ya en quitarse esos calcetines de lana que tanto le gustan. Son Rebecca y Peter Harris; llevan juntos muchos años y comparten la misma aficion por el arte. La pasion de antes es ahora complicidad y todo parece presagiar que asi seguiran sus dias, pero de repente aparece Dizzy, el hermano de Rebecca, que tiene poco mas de veinte años. El chico se instala en casa de los Harris, buscando consuelo y ayuda tras una epoca de confusion y adiccion a las drogas. Su hermoso cuerpo, que el muestra con desenvoltura, es a ojos del cuñado el simbolo de la belleza pura, captada en ese momento magico en que todo parece aun posible. Bien mirado, Dizzy es Rebecca, pero libre de los estragos del tiempo, y Peter se descubre dispuesto a gozar de nuevo, a apostar por una locura y a pagar su precio. La vida se encargara de resolver las dudas de Peter Harris, pero Michael Cunningham

Peter is forty-four, prosperous, childless, the owner of a big New York apartment, a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene He has been married to Rebecca for close on twenty years Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are Peter might even describe himself to be happy But when Mizzy, Rebeccas much younger brother, comes to stay, his world is turned upside down Returning to their New York flat after work one day, Peter sees the outline of Rebecca in the shower...

Las desventuras de dos amigos de la infancia que después de graduarse en el instituto deciden irse a vivir a Nueva York para experimentar la vida bohemia de los 80s. Allí compartirán casa con Clare y sus vidas darán un vuelco cuando ella quede embarazada. Los tres deciden mudarse a una pequeña casa y se embarcan en el precario proyecto de crear un nuevo tipo de familia. 

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: 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.

Clarissa est éditrice à New York à la fin du XXe siècle ; Virginia est écrivain en 1923 dans la banlieue de Londres ; Laura est mère au foyer à Los Angeles en 1949. Tandis que s'écoulent les heures d'une journée particulière, un réseau de résonances subtiles apparaît peu à peu entre ces trois femmes en quête de bonheur, jusqu'à la révélation finale, bouleversante. Sous la plume de Michael Cunningham, d'une grâce presque irréelle, les sentiments les plus furtifs, les émotions les plus impalpables ont la fragilité et l'amertume des occasions perdues, de la douleur de vivre. Ce roman magistral, adapté avec un immense succès au cinéma, a reçu les prestigieux prix Pulitzer et Pen Faulkner en 1999.

La nova novel·la de l'autor de Les hores.Amb Walt Whitman com a referent, Michael Cunningham ha escrit Dies memorables una novel·la captivadora i brillant que segueix el plantejament narratiu que l'autor ja va utilitzar en Les hores. Composta per un elegant triptic de relats, tres personatges en diferents epoques i situacions, ambientats, pero, sempre a Nova York, ens parlen sobre el progres huma i el declivi social. En el primer relat, un jovenet s'estrena com a treballador en un incipient mon industrialitzat. En el segon, en un dia com ara el d'avui, una psicologa forense assaja nous metodes en el dialeg amb terroristes i homicides que no son exactament el que son. En el tercer, un androide s'escapa d'una Nova York convertida, talment, en un parc tematic. En tots tres relats apareix un personatge que recorre als versos de Whitman per tal de trobar l'explicacio del mon en que viu. Tots tres dies transcorren en uns dies qualsevol, en uns dies repetibles, pero memorables. I en aquesta repeticio, en les variacions subtilissimes hi ha tota la magia d'aquesta magnifica novel·la.Michael Cunningham (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955) es va criar a Los Angeles. Es llicenciat per la Universitat de Stanford. Els seus primers relats i novel·les van prendre forma en el taller d'escriptura creativa a la Universitat de Iowa. En l'actualitat es professor d'escriptura a la Universitat de Columbia a Nova York, ciutat on viu. A mes de Les hores, Premi Pulitzer (publicada per Edicions 62), cal destacar les novel·les A Home at the End of the World i Flesh and Blood, Premi Whiting Writer's Award. El seu relat "White Angel" va ser seleccionat per a la recopilacio de Best American Short Stories.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away - the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder - are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.

Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up; in the sky he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesnt believe in visions_or in God_but

The whole course of one's life really can change in an instant. Peter is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment, a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself to be happy. But when Mizzy, Rebecca's much younger brother, comes to stay, his world is turned upside down. Returning to their New York flat after work one day, Peter sees the outline of Rebecca in the shower. But when he opens the shower door, it is Mizzy he comes face to face with. From that moment on, Mizzy occupies all of Peter's thoughts. His fascination with him is erotic but not exactly sexual. Without ever really falling out of love with his wife, he tumbles into love with her brother, and is encouraged that way by the young man. With traces of the tensions that ripple through Death in Venice, this new novel from Michael Cunningham brilliantly examines the quest for unattainable, and temporal, beauty

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of "A Home at the End of the World "and "Flesh and Blood." In "The Hours," Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.

From the author of THE HOURS 'Luminously written ...page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light in the sky that regards him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions - or in God - but he can't deny what he's seen. In nearby Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, is trying - and failing - to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

"Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder--are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true"--

Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In 1990s New York, Clarissa Vaughan goes shopping for flowers for a party for her AIDS-suffering poet-friend. This novel meditates on artistic behaviour, love and madness.