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by Michael Cunningham

  • ISBN: 0374172501
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Michael Cunningham
  • Subcategory: United States
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (November 7, 1990)
  • Pages: 344 pages
  • FB2 size: 1544 kb
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  • Rating: 4.5
  • Votes: 226
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A Home at the End of the World is a 1990 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Michael Cunningham. The book is narrated in the first person, with the narrator changing in each chapter.

A Home at the End of the World is a 1990 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Michael Cunningham. Bobby and Jonathan are the main narrators, but several chapters are narrated by Alice, Jonathan's mother, and Clare. An excerpt from A Home at the End of the World was published in The New Yorker, chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and featured on NPR's Selected Shorts.

Michael Cunningham has written a novel that all but reads itself. A touching contemporary stor. his novel is full of precise treasures. Patrick Gale, The Washington Post Book World. his novel is full of precise treasure. .A Home at the End of the World is the issue of an original talent. Herbert Gold, The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Beautifu. his is a fine work, one of grace and great sympathy. Linnea Lannon, Detroit Free Press. Luminous with the wonders and anxieties that make childhood mysteriou. Home at the End of the World is a remarkable accomplishment.

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Michael Cunningham A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD This book is for Ken Corbett The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed in its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. A home at the end of the world. This book is for Ken Corbett. The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain. There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer . The Washington Post Book World.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspect. Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World, read by Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Blair Brown, and Jennifer Van Dyck. 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. -Sherry Rosenthal, San Diego Tribune.

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A Home at the End of the World. Author: Michael Cunningham. Publisher: Picador, New York, 1998. 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 roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city’s erotic wars.

Mosquitoes circled above us in the violet ether. More of the lilies exploded, red yellow and mauve, their silver stems lingering beneath them. That Fourth of July the city of Cleveland had hired two famous Mexican brothers to set off fireworks over the municipal golf course. These brothers put on shows all over the world, at state and religious affairs. They came from deep in Mexico, where bread was baked in the shape of skulls and virgins, and fireworks were considered to be man’s highest form of artistic expression. Then came the snakes, hissing orange fire, a dozen at a time, great lolloping curves that met, intertwined, and diverged, sizzling all the while.

A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD By Michael Cunningham

A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD By Michael Cunningham. 343 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. If this book finds no comfort in the conventions of fidelity, neither does it celebrate the inability to make a commitment. Michael Cunningham loves his characters deeply, and that love manifests itself in the care of his observations, the patient exactitude with which he attends to the particularities of their experience.

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
Reviews about A Home at the End of the World: A Novel (7):
Rich Vulture
Michael Cunningham I read without referring to reviews - no matter what he writes. This started out as a sure-fire, five-star selection. Cunningham's writing style is superb. Such insight! Such definitive prose! But I got bogged down a bit during the middle. Got tired of Clare's actions and Jonathan's inability to get his life going. Well, I guess I shouldn't blame the author for that. Undoubtedly that's how he wanted it to happen. So, I'll give Clare and Jonathan about three stars, and make that up with Bobby and Alice, both of whom, in their own ways, seem to be survivors.

What about plot and character? The novel definitely has a viable plot, even though it meanders somewhat aimlessly over several decades and multiple destinations. The ending seems true to the plot, i.e., you don't really know where the characters are going, which sums up the book nicely. Meanwhile, the individual character development is fine. The reader gets to know what the main characters are doing, although not necessarily why or what their activities and choices add up to. Once again, that's no doubt what the author wants to convey. The venues, as depicted by the author, are all dreary - Cleveland, Arizona, New York. Not exactly Reagan's shining city on a hill. But that fits in well with what the author seems to be saying about life.

I lived through the decades depicted, and it more or less shocks me to think I might have been like either Jonathan or Bobby. Not that they were evil, or even nonentities, or that my own life has been an uninterrupted series of highs, but their lives seemed so humdrum and unfocused.
DireRaven
Michael Cunningham has once again written a beautiful novel. The characters each lack the ability to completely open themselves to another person. Each one needs the others to almost make a whole. Their love for each other is far more pure than they truly realize. There are moments when one of them begins to comprehend how deeply he or she loves and needs the others. This results in that person withdraws psychologically or physically runs away. Pain and loss has touched them all leaving them deeply scarred. The reader is privy to what they each cannot or will not accept about their relationships. The tenderness, sweetness and devotion is inspiring but often tenuous. The novel is beautiful. It is often sad. Mainly it is a story of true love.
Nanecele
This was a wonderful story. The movie of course doesn't do it justice. The writing style was magnificent and in places so eloquent, and almost poetic. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Iell
The last time I read a book was...I don't remember. I saw this movie and was entranced enough (and felt there was some missing material...maybe a lot) to buy, and then actually read, this book. Twice. I guess I liked it the first time, and I liked it the second time too.

You probably don't have to be gay (or bisexual or whatever) to fully appreciate this book, but I think some familiarity with it would help, and might be the difference between enjoying this or just finding it strange and unrelentingly frustrating.

Michael Cunningham has impressed me with his command of the language and his distinctive ability to describe and bring to life the inner feelings and outer personality of his characters. I cared about them, and I wanted them to find what they were looking for.

The story affirms and celebrates differences and our search for fulfillment and love among the wreckage of human weakness, failings, and general imperfection.

If you've seen the movie and had the urge to more fully examine and know these characters and the story, be warned that the book isn't identical to the movie. However, it's worth the time to read, and it's more satisfying in many ways. I think you will enjoy it.
Xaluenk
Michael Cunningham seems assured a top position in the Important Writers of this Century. Having won the Pulitzer Prize for THE HOURS and spawning one of the most respected films of the year makes us wonder if this level of literary magnificence can be sustained. And that is a fine reason for returning to his earlier works to see if the seeds of greatness were well planted. The answer: unquestionably! A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD may have taken Cunningham years to write, but what a polished novel those years of patience and care produced!
Cunningham is first a writer of astounding gifts: he can spin brief phrases describing a fraction of a moment of light or scent or air or internal feeling that are so beautifully crafted they blink like diamonds on field of story. His vocabulary is eloquent, his ability to paint characters is rich and uniquely his own, and his craft of storytelling is mesmerizing.
"A HOME......" deals with the yearning for finding a sense of family and a sense of love and meaning in the world we have inherited and are propagating. His style?: each chapter is named for one of his characters and the story progresses from the different views of these interlocking people. Very simply stated, Cunningham creates Bobby (the lone survivor of a family destroyed by the first born son's death), Jonathan (likewise a survivor of a family who finds a tolerable existence after a stillborn death of a potential sibling), and Clare (an escape artist from a family of means from whom she flees into a world of drugs and sex and loss of connectedness) - and from this melange we study three families and learn just what the term 'family' denotes. Bobby is internally complex and bonds with Jonathan in highschool in what for Jonathan is a homosexual craving and for Bobby is a deparate need for love at any cost. After highschool in Cleveland, Jonathan moves to New York for college and for embracing the lifestyle he cannot find in Cleveland, and pairs with Clare in a sexless coupling that is glued together by mutual need and love. Bobby stays in Cleveland, lost, but bonds with Jonathan's parents (Alice and Ned), becoming a cook and restauranteur. When the effects of Ned's asthma require moving to Arizona, Bobby moves to New York, moving in with Jonathan and Clare, and the final family is born. The intricacies of this menage a trois relationship open the doors for each of the characters to discover their real needs. To tell more would not be fair to the new reader. Suffice it to say that the story Cunningham creates touches nerves and creates chords of identification that make this novel compelling and fascinating to the final page. "...we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change." Food for thought and certainly a seed of style that makes THE HOURS so magnificent a book. Richly recommended.

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