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Specimen Days

2007-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 247/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Specimen Days by : Michael Cunningham

Download or read book Specimen Days written by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.

Specimen Days & Collect

1882 American essays
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Release : 1882
Genre : American essays
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Book Synopsis Specimen Days & Collect by : Walt Whitman

Download or read book Specimen Days & Collect written by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 1882. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flesh and Blood

2007-04-17 Fiction
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Release : 2007-04-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 556/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flesh and Blood by : Michael Cunningham

Download or read book Flesh and Blood written by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2007-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it is touched by ambition, love, violence, and the transforming effects of time.

By Nightfall

2010-09-28 Fiction
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Release : 2010-09-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 090/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis By Nightfall by : Michael Cunningham

Download or read book By Nightfall written by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2010-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 mistake"), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed. Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

The Snow Queen

2014-05-06 Fiction
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Release : 2014-05-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Snow Queen by : Michael Cunningham

Download or read book The Snow Queen written by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours 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 seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God—but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying—and failing—to 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.

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