Michael Cunningham

David Stark, an adolescent and mainstay of a family of women nearing physical or emotional collapse, hitchhikes from Southern California to San Francisco to locate a wandering sister and encounters adulthood.

In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a masterful journey through four generations of the Stassos family as he examines the dynamics of a family struggling to "come of age" in the 20th century. In 1950, Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant laborer, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and together they produce three Susan, an ambitious beauty, Billy, a brilliant homosexual

Lucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form ‘Specimen Days’. The first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was ‘devoured’ by the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies

Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story 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

In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod. Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.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 cont

Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in thefamily as Mizzy

The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's 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

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

“Rumpelstiltskin,” reinvented.

The text of an essay by Cunningham about the influence of Virginia Woolf on his life and writing. published in conjunction with This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 16 - November 22, 2008. The text of an essay by Cunningham about the influence of Virginia Woolf on his life and writing. Cunningham is in part best known

A 200-year-old gnome desperately wants to become a father."Little Man" is from A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu.

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 w

This book questions the validity of the institutional churches of America. Are they feeding the Body of Christ or are they feeding the ego and pockets of the pastors / CEO’s that run them.

En Peter i la Rebecca són una parella encantadora amb una filla adolescent. Residents al sofisticat barri del Soho de Nova York, tots dos tenen més de quaranta anys i passen per la seva millor etapa ell com a galerista d'art i ella com a editora d'una publicació cultural.Un bon dia, però, aquest feliç matrimoni rep la visita del germà petit de la Rebecca, l'Ethan, un noi de poc més de vint anys qu

This is a charming real story about her weekend with her daddy, their adventures, and see how much fun they have along the way. Presented in a positive manner addressing the modern family unit today. Tehya lives with her mum and looks forward to her special weekends she spends with her dad.

Follow the journey as Michael Cunningham transforms himself from a college track coach into a full time professional poker player. See how the author deals with the ups and downs of being the 'most famous non-famous poker player in the world'. His journey will lead you from the outskirts of Mississippi to the Sin City of Las Vegas, and back again.

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—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The HoursApril 5, 2019 : In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both

On July 29, 1968 I was an infantryman with the U. S. Army in Vietnam. On that day my infantry company was involved in a fierce firefight with the enemy. They detonated a 500 lb. booby trap as a helicopter was landing at our position. In the ensuing fight, we lost three soldiers killed in action and twelve wounded severely, requiring evacuation. But worse of all, we had a missing in action, Sgt. Je

March 16, 1968 Quang Ngai Province VietnamU.S. troops from the Americal Division entered the village of My Lai this morning and began a methodical massacre of the villagers. When the troops were done, more than 500 innocent women and children lay dead. We visited the village 50 years later and reflected on the ramifications of our actions.