{"title":"Michael Cunningham","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"day-michael-cunningham-paperback","title":"Day -- Michael Cunningham, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTELLER - An \"exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The only problem with Michael Cunningham's prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals' work. He is the most elegant writer in America.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub, Paste, Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eApril 5, 2019: \u003c\/b\u003e In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart--and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eApril 5, 2020: \u003c\/b\u003e As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts--and his secret Instagram life--for company. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eApril 5, 2021\u003c\/b\u003e Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality--and with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Cunningham] is one of love's greatest witnesses.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Los Angeles Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An absolutely stunning portrait of humanity . . . a masterpiece.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Literary Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399591365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Cunningham \u003c\/b\u003eis a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hours \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999. He has taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. 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In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel together with Woolf's masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003eat fifteen--as he writes, \"I was lost. I was gone. 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