By Nightfall - Couverture souple

Cunningham, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007437846 ISBN 13 : 9780007437849

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

A Sophisticated Literary Novel About a Marriage Upended by a Sudden Guest

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days, and non-fiction book, Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown. The Hours was awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award and made into an internationally acclaimed, Oscar-winning film. His new novel, The Snow Queen, will be published in May of 2014. He lives in New York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca’s much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his desires, his career – the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself.

Making us think deeply about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives, By Nightfall is heartbreaking look at the way we live now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007437846
• ISBN 13: 9780007437849
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: HarperCollins Publishers, Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande