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Peter and Rebecca Harris: 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.
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Jericho K
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“I'd like to preface this review by stating I am young. 18 and only now finding myself enthralled with literature as an art and medium. That being said, I've yet to stumble across a book quite like this one. It has a mature quality to it that many my age aren't often to wound up in, leading to books like this one not getting recommended to me often. The style of writing is so much more complex and beautifully expressive than any other book I've read. That is something that captivated me from the start.
I found myself here the same way many of you have-through talk of Hugh Dancy narrorating some scandelous book by an Author I've never heard of. Though this book is much less scandalous as those on the various social media platforms implied, I am far from disappointed. There's something so raw and intriguing about the story being told. It doesn't make itself out to be some grand tale. It's not designed to be prophetic nor mystical in terms of some happy ending with sunshine and rainbows. Its much more level headed... Genuine. And that may just be why I enjoyed it so much. We allways. seem to long for a happy ending... sometimes for us to be happy, the ending needs to be a rough one, as demonstrated here in this beautiful work by Michael Cunningham. By the end, you're left with a sense of both longing and well...hopefulness that fills your being. Well at least I was!
I've written very few reviews in the past year that I've been diving deeper into literature itself. I never felt the need to repeat what others have already said, reiterating words that have already been sent off into the web (often times with much more detail and conviction than I could conjure up myself), but here. I feel the strong compulsion to express my opinion of this book. Something about not has captivated and inspired me, a young reader, to delve deeper into literature and step outside of my comfort zone. I hope this book evokes that same sense of inspiration and contentment out of you as well.”JT
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Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Specimen Days, and Flesh and Blood. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours, which was a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a Professor at Brooklyn College for the M.F.A program.
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