A Home at the End of the World: A Novel - Hardcover

Cunningham, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374172501 ISBN 13: 9780374172503

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990

Synopsis

Friends since the age of thirteen, Jonathan and Bobby live troubled lives that eventually take them to New York, where they meet the romantically troubled Clare, and the three embark on a new life together

About this title

From the Publisher:

Praise for A Home at the End of the World:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0374172501
• ISBN 13: 9780374172503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344