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.

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. Re-imagined 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.

Peter and Rebecca 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.

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 Hours April 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 a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house—and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. Meanwhile Nathan, age ten, is taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe, while Nathan attempts to skirt her rules. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts—and his secret Instagram life—for company. April 5, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality—with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on. From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss and the struggles and limitations of family life—how to live together and apart.

Et hjem ved verdens ende er en roman om sårede, utilpassede mennesker, der har opgivet at falde til ro i det vedtagne familiemønster og prøver at skabe et hjem og en tilværelse på andre præmisser. Som ”dengang i tresserne”, men uden tressernes naive optimisme – verden er blevet en anden. Historien fortælles på skift af Bobby og Jonathan, som har været venner siden barndommen, af Jonathans mor Alice og endelig af Clare – Jonathans platoniske kærlighed og mor til Bobbys datter.    Bogen er filmatiseret.

Bestseller, który zdobył w 1999 roku Nagrodę Pulitzera i PEN/Faulkner Award. "Godziny" to głęboko poruszająca, przepełniona namiętnościami powieść inspirowana życiem i twórczością Virginii Woolf. Michael Cunningham umieścił jej akcję na przemian w różnych okresach XX wieku. Losy dwóch głównych bohaterek – Clarissy Vaughan i Laury Brown – splata z wątkami zaczerpniętymi z życiorysu pisarki. Clarissa, mieszkanka współczesnego Nowego Jorku, nazwana przez mężczyznę, którego kocha, panią Dalloway, jest wydawcą. Laura – gospodynią domową uwięzioną w dusznym, beznamiętnym małżeństwie. Obie szamoczą się między pragnieniem miłości a wpojonymi zasadami, między nadzieją a rozpaczą. Próbują odnaleźć radość życia na przekór temu, czego oczekują od nich przyjaciele, kochankowie, rodzina.

Una mañana de 1923, en un suburbio de Londres, Virginia Woolf se despierta con la idea que se convertirá en La señora Dalloway. En los años noventa, en Nueva York, Clarissa Vaughan compra flores para una fiesta en honor de Richard, un antiguo amigo enfermo de SIDA que ha recibido un importante premio literario. En 1949, Laura Brown, un ama de casa de Los Angeles, prepara una tarta de cumpleaños para su marido con la ayuda de su hijo pequeño. Éstas son las tres mujeres, y los momentos de partida, de Las horas, una emotiva novela que se adentra en el mundo de Virginia Woolf con extremada sensibilidad e inteligencia. Al igual que la protagonista de su obra, los personajes se debaten entre la soledad, la desesperanza y el amor por la belleza y la vida hasta unirse en un trascendente final.

Negli anni Venti a Richmond, un sobborgo di Londra, Virginia Woolf è in cerca dell’ispirazione per il suo nuovo romanzo, assistita amorevolmente dal marito che tenta di domare il suo spirito inquieto. Negli anni Quaranta, a Los Angeles, Laura Brown è una giovane madre di famiglia che cerca nelle pagine di La signora Dalloway una via di fuga dalla routine domestica. Negli anni Novanta a New York, Clarissa Vaughn, soprannominata signora Dalloway, esce dal suo appartamento nel Greenwich Village per comprare dei fiori per Richard, un amico poeta che sta combattendo il male del decennio. Tre donne che sembrano non avere nulla in comune, se non il romanzo di Virginia Woolf, e che pure sono unite da un filo sottile che lega le loro storie attraverso luoghi ed epoche diverse. Un romanzo vincitore del premio Pulitzer 1999 e del PEN/Faulkner award, che ha ispirato il film premio Oscar di Stephen Daldry con Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore e Meryl Streep, Le ore rivela nella scrittura avvolgente di Michael Cunningham i percorsi invisibili con cui la letteratura attraversa le nostre vite, e dà loro un senso nuovo.

“Rumpelstiltskin,” reinvented.

Il volume raccoglie due racconti di Michael Cunningham, "Fratello" e "Puttana", accostati a un saggio che l'autore, noto per i suoi romanzi "Le ore" e "Carne e sangue", ha composto in onore del suo mito letterario, Virginia Woolf.

Intr-o dimineata mohorita, in Londra anului 1923, Virginia Woolf se trezeste dintr-un vis care o va determina sa scrie Doamna Dalloway. In Greenwich Village-ul timpului nostru, Clarissa Vaughan pregateste o petrecere pentru ziua de nastere a fostului ei iubit, un poet bolnav de SIDA. Intr-un Los Angeles al anului 1949, Laura Brown pregateste ziua de nastere a sotului ei si nu se poate abtine sa citeasca din Woolf. Odata inceputa povestea lor, cele trei destine se intrepatrund, se reflecta ca intr-o oglinda, chiar si in cel mai marunt moment al vietii. Romanul a stat la baza peliculei omonime, distinsa cu cele mai prestigioase premii din lumea filmului: doua Globuri de Aur (pentru cel mai bun film, cea mai buna actrita – Nicole Kidman), Ursul de Argint la Festivalul de la Berlin (pentru cea mai buna interpre­tare feminina: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep si Julianne Moore), doua premii BAFTA (pentru cea mai buna actrita in rol prin­cipal – Nicole Kidman – si pentru cea mai buna muzica) si premiul Oscar pentru cea mai buna actrita in rol prin­cipal (Nicole Kidman).

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Главная героиня романа - вдохновительница и мистический "соавтор" Каннингема, знаменитая английская писательница Вирджиния Вулф. Наряду с ней, пишущей свой прославленный роман "Миссис Дэллоуэй" в 20-х годах XX века, в "Часах" рассказывается о миссис Браун, читающей эту книгу в середине века, и миссис Дэллоуэй, живущей в конце XX века в Нью-Йорке, чья судьба так схожа с судьбой Клариссы из книги Вулф. Англия 20-х и Америка 90-х. Патриархальный Ричмонд, послевоенный Лос-Анджелес и сверхсовременный Нью-Йорк. Как устроено время? Как рождаются книги? Обо всем этом - "Часы".