I love New York stories, I love the '80s. It has lots of my favorite things in a novel: New York, suburban malaise, love, the 80s, parenting. Box office. Alice visits, happy and proud of the restaurant, the baby and the life the boys have created for themselves. I suddenly believed I was right and had always been right about the way I despise stereotypes, clichés and the way most people always seem to want to be part of big groups. I've read four of his novels in the last two years and they are starting to run together. by Picador. by Иностранка, Published November 2001 by Booket, Published 1992 Author (s): Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author) ISBN: 0374172501 (ISBN13: 9780374172503) Edition language: English. What an amazing book. The book is narrated in the first person, with the narrator changing in each chapter.Bobby and Jonathan are the main narrators, but several chapters are … . Read a Fitzgerald or Hemmingway novel and there's the author himself on almost every page. "I'd only wanted to hold him for a while, to guide his head to my chest. Cunningham has a way of embedding characters and setting directly into each capillary in your body. Michael Cunningham is "one of our very best writers" (Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times).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.He is the author of two other novels, Flesh and Blood and The Hours.He lives in New York. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Virginia Woolf's point of departure in The Waves. I suddenly believed I was right and had always been right about the way I despise stereotypes, clichés. I think Cunningham pulls it off. ", Fiction. This is the story of Bobby and Jonathan -- best friends, almost brothers, almost in love -- how they grow up together, how they grow apart, how they meet Clare, and how they all try to make a home together. Looking to watch A Home at the End of the World? how did Jonathan feel about how things turned out? I would argue that this is Cunningham's best book, though perhaps lesser known and recognized. 2004 Directed by Michael Mayer. by Penguin Books, Published March 1st 1992 Perhaps one reason Shakespeare is so untouchably brilliant is that you have no idea who he is from his work. I think I'm experiencing Cunningham Fatigue. by penguin, Published November 7th 1990 Know another quote from A Home at the End of the World? by Picador, Tascabili Bompiani 855, Paperback, 368 pages, Published 2005 A boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend. The writing is incredible - just beautiful, beautiful words. It’s so beautiful and touching. It sounds cozy -- I love self-made families -- but this is an exceedingly lonely book. by Bách Việt & NXB Lao Động, Published July 1st 2004 To see what your friends thought of this book. - … Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It has been a wonderful reading experience. I did have some disappointments and questions at then end of the book, was Alice happy? Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Published July 1st 2004 A Home at the End of the World Quotes. Then after I finished reading it and because its characters didn’t fall into any available categories I knew from my small little world, I felt a sudden and overwhelming sense of relief. Sign up to see what your friends are reading, get book recommendations, and join the world’s largest community of readers. 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