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A Home at the End of the World

By Michael Cunningham

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| Paperback | 9780140299540

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For the first time, an audio production is available of Michael Cunningham’s critically acclaimed novel—published to coincide with the release of the feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts
M ichael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood Continue

For the first time, an audio production is available of Michael Cunningham’s critically acclaimed novel—published to coincide with the release of the feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts
M ichael Cunningham’s celebrated novel 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 the city’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 create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

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  • Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

    Before Specimen Days had us all goggling at that third section (even now I can’t quite believe he went ahead and did it: was he trying to do a Cloud Atlas, I wonder?), even before The Hours did the double with the PEN/Faulkner and the Pulitzer, Micha ... (read full critics)

    theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

  • A Home at the End of the World

    A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham Picador Paperback 352 pages July 2004 Two lines from the final paragraph of Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World come from the character Jonathan, who says, “I realized that if I died s ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • Bobby: "you don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours."

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  • Not too bad my first Cunningham's book.
    It's a dinamic triangle: Bobby, Jonathan, and the mutual women in this male story Alice-Clare.
    The male characters in the novel are stereotyped: or "kind and open, but haunted" (Bobby, Jonathan's father)or gay "unhappy with his directionless life (Jonathan a ... (continue)

    Not too bad my first Cunningham's book.
    It's a dinamic triangle: Bobby, Jonathan, and the mutual women in this male story Alice-Clare.
    The male characters in the novel are stereotyped: or "kind and open, but haunted" (Bobby, Jonathan's father)or gay "unhappy with his directionless life (Jonathan and irregular guy). The same with the female:indipendent,very strong, "searching for a future to match her dreams".
    At the end it's not true the Clare's voice that said:"We needed all three points of the triangle". Because in the home at the end of the world you don't need of geometric shapes!

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    skyzzy 67 said on Mar 6, 2011 | Add your feedback

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