by Michael Cunningham
Directly after I've finished the book:THAT, my friends, is an excellent example of a literary fiction. And it is not easy to rate the books of the genre. They could be everything - from 2 to 5 stars. Well, I have to decide between 4 or 5 in this specific case, but it won't be easier to write a revie...
Not really a review. This book was picked for me in a challenge. I began to read, got about 15% in, but didn't finish - too many things started happening all at once, GRamazon one of them (what a waste of time, but it totally sucked me in) However I did find time to watch a movie based on the book. ...
Not really a review. This book was picked for me in a challenge. I began to read, got about 15% in, but didn't finish - too many things started happening all at once, GRamazon one of them (what a waste of time, but it totally sucked me in) However I did find time to watch a movie based on the book. ...
Like The Hours, this has some incredibly beautiful, amazingly poignant, and overwhelming sad bits. At first I wondered if I would get the various narrators' voices muddled (especially Bobby and Jonathan), but they quickly developed as separate entities in my reader's mind and I did not find myself w...
I love New York stories, I love the '80s. The plot is captivating, and for someone coming from Eastern Europe, such a story taking place while they grew up, - in a different part of the world, of course - seems pretty unbelievable.
Cunningham uses many of thesame themes and elements inA Home at the End of the Worldhe would later reusein The Hours including mom-son relationships, gay relationships,the lost feeling in modern life,death, and the joy of living inthe moment.
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