By Nightfall (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Cunningham, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410435547 ISBN 13: 9781410435545

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Peter and Rebecca Harris have settled into a comfortable mid-life--with their careers as an art dealer and editor, respectively, blossoming and their son in college--until Rebecca's look-alike brother with a history of drug problems shows up and makes Peter question his artists, their work, his career and nearly everything else. (general fiction).

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Review:

‘Cunningham encourages his reader to wrestle with things that interest him by sketching his plots delicately over classic lines. In this case, the arrival of the guest who will change everything is reworked into a discussion about art and decay by a writer who can write a page-turning novel that lingers eloquently in the mind’ The Times

‘This is a book about art, love, marriage and mortality... One of the intriguing and peculiar qualities of ‘By Nightfall’ is that 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 more satisfying career trajectories of contemporary American novelists...’By Nightfall’ offers the reader an abundance of exquisite, enriching thumbnail sketches’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Constantly surprising ... a love letter to New York, a hymn to youth and a meditation on the way art and literature alter our perception of the world’ Evening Standard

About the Author:

Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels, including ‘A Home at the End of the World’, ‘Flesh and Blood’, ‘The Hours’ (winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), ‘Specimen Days’ and ‘By Nightfall’, as well as ‘Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown’. His most recent novel is ‘The Snow Queen’. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1410435547
• ISBN 13: 9781410435545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 369