A Home at the End of the World - Softcover
"Michael Cunningham has written a novel that all but reads itself," The Washington Post Book World's reviewer observed when A Home at the End of the World was published in 1990. The novel masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
It 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 New York'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.
"The story of Jonathan, Clare, Bobby, and Alice is also the story of the seventies and eighties in America--and vice versa," David Leavitt remarked. "It is destined to last."
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"Lyrical...memorable and accomplished." --The New York Times Book Review
"Novels don't come more deeply felt than Michael Cunningham's extraordinary four-character study... The writing...is a constant pleasure, flowing and yet dense with incisive images and psychological nuance." --Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe
"Cunningham writes with power and delicacy.... We come to feel that we know Jonathan, Bobby, and Clare as if we lived with them; yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art." --Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times
"Once in a great while, there appears a novel so spellbinding in its beauty and sensitivity that the reader devours it nearly whole, in great greedy gulps, and feels stretched sore afterwards, having been expanded and filled. Such a book is Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World." --Sherry Rosenthal, San Diego Tribune
Michael Cunningham is "one of our very best writers" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times). An excerpt from this novel was published in The New Yorker, chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and featured on NPR's Selected Shorts.
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- PublisherNoonday Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0374525781
- ISBN 13 9780374525781
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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