By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Fourth Estate, 2010

0007318510 / 9780007318513

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256 pages. Cover worn.From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a m arriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Peter Harris is for ty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the c ontemporary 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 hi mself as happy. But then Rebecca's much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a vis it. 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 constr ucted for himself. Making us think deeply about the uses of beauty and the plac e of love in our lives, By Nightfall is heartbreaking look at the way we live no w. Review 'Cunningham encourages his reader to wrestle with things that intere st him by sketching his plots delicately over classic lines. In this case, the a rrival of the guest who will change everything is reworked into a discussion abo ut art and decay by a writer who can write a page-turning novel that lingers elo quently in the mind' The Times 'This is a book about art, love, marriage and mo rtality. One of the intriguing and peculiar qualities of 'By Nightfall' is tha t it makes you live with a character who seems never quite at ease with his own identity. One of Cunningham's gifts is to be able to shift gears when he wants , out of banal everydayness into an intense rhapsodic meditation on the meaning and purpose of life.' Guardian 'Michael Cunningham is embarked on one of the mo re satisfying career trajectories of contemporary American novelists.'By Night.…

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Titre
By Nightfall
Auteur
Michael Cunningham
Éditeur
Fourth Estate
Année de publication
2010
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0007318510
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780007318513
Dimensions
13.5cm x 1.8cm x 21.6cm
Catalogues du vendeur
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Book Express (NZ)

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