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A Home at the End of the World

A Novel

By Michael Cunningham

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| Paperback | 9780312202316

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Book Description

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel 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 roomContinue

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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

2 Reviews

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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Aki said on Jul 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

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