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BY NIGHTFALL
BY NIGHTFALL
BY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
READ BY HUGH DANCY
ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK:
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, “the mistake”), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed.
Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World (Picador) and Flesh and Blood. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours which was a New York Times Bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a Professor at Brooklyn College for the M.F.A program.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS FOR BY NIGHTFALL:
Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review:
“[Cunningham] makes you turn the pages. He tells a story here, but not too much a story. You aren’t deadened by detail; you’re eager to know what happens next.”
Pam Houston, More:
“In this rueful, daring and expansive novel, Cunningham gives us deep and thrilling access to the mind and heart of a searching, cynical, self-deprecating-except-when-he’s-self-aggrandizing modern male.”
Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly:
“There are sentences here so powerfully precise and beautiful that they almost hover above the page.”
Very Short List:
“Beautifully written . . . Cunningham manages to perfectly capture post-9/11 New York City, with keen observations about anxiety, fidelity, aging, the art world and the somewhat impossible pursuit of what we think of as happiness.”
Donna Seaman, The Kansas City Star:
“A ravishing and witty tale of yearning and hubris.”
Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review):
“The result is an exquisite, slyly witty, warmly philosophical, and urbanely eviscerating tale of the mysteries of beauty and desire, art and delusion, age and love."
“[Cunningham] makes you turn the pages. He tells a story here, but not too much a story. You aren’t deadened by detail; you’re eager to know what happens next.”
Pam Houston, More:
“In this rueful, daring and expansive novel, Cunningham gives us deep and thrilling access to the mind and heart of a searching, cynical, self-deprecating-except-when-he’s-self-aggrandizing modern male.”
Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly:
“There are sentences here so powerfully precise and beautiful that they almost hover above the page.”
Very Short List:
“Beautifully written . . . Cunningham manages to perfectly capture post-9/11 New York City, with keen observations about anxiety, fidelity, aging, the art world and the somewhat impossible pursuit of what we think of as happiness.”
Donna Seaman, The Kansas City Star:
“A ravishing and witty tale of yearning and hubris.”
Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review):
“The result is an exquisite, slyly witty, warmly philosophical, and urbanely eviscerating tale of the mysteries of beauty and desire, art and delusion, age and love."
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Nancy Connors, The Plain Dealer:
“Michael Cunningham’s newest novel, By Nightfall, is a slim book that takes on some big issues: the evolving relationship of long-married couples, the often-fraught bond between parents and their adult children, the duty siblings have to one another. But it also enlarges to consider the role that beauty plays in our lives and the necessarily one-sided nature of our relationship with it. By Nightfall is philosophy masquerading as a story . . . Instead of a novel overflowing with flesh and sweat, rage and craziness, Cunningham has given us a well-considered treatise.”
Ellen Kanner, Miami Herald:
“Where art and humanity converge and where they part form a double helix in By Nightfall and account for the novel’s most considered and lovely prose. Cunningham’s observations of our desperate search for the real fill and break the heart.”
Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe:
“So many of Cunningham’s physical descriptions read like confident prose poems, where you imagine what’s left between the lines . . . As a testament to the richness of the literary imagination, By Nightfall is a success. You can’t read this novel without the sense of how worlds can be found in a drop of water, or in an offhand comment, or in the curve of a vase . . . By Nightfall is a meditation on beauty, and it has its own indelible qualities of beauty.”
“Michael Cunningham’s newest novel, By Nightfall, is a slim book that takes on some big issues: the evolving relationship of long-married couples, the often-fraught bond between parents and their adult children, the duty siblings have to one another. But it also enlarges to consider the role that beauty plays in our lives and the necessarily one-sided nature of our relationship with it. By Nightfall is philosophy masquerading as a story . . . Instead of a novel overflowing with flesh and sweat, rage and craziness, Cunningham has given us a well-considered treatise.”
Ellen Kanner, Miami Herald:
“Where art and humanity converge and where they part form a double helix in By Nightfall and account for the novel’s most considered and lovely prose. Cunningham’s observations of our desperate search for the real fill and break the heart.”
Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe:
“So many of Cunningham’s physical descriptions read like confident prose poems, where you imagine what’s left between the lines . . . As a testament to the richness of the literary imagination, By Nightfall is a success. You can’t read this novel without the sense of how worlds can be found in a drop of water, or in an offhand comment, or in the curve of a vase . . . By Nightfall is a meditation on beauty, and it has its own indelible qualities of beauty.”
GIVEAWAY
I, MYSELF, HAVE ONE BRAND NEW
COPY OF THIS FASCINATING
AUDIO BOOK TO GIVE AWAY!
AUDIO BOOK TO GIVE AWAY!
--U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES, PLEASE
--INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS IN COMMENT
--ALL ENTRIES/COMMENTS MUST BE
SEPARATE IN ORDER TO COUNT
AS MORE THAN ONE ENTRY
--INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS IN COMMENT
--ALL ENTRIES/COMMENTS MUST BE
SEPARATE IN ORDER TO COUNT
AS MORE THAN ONE ENTRY
HOW TO ENTER:
+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT BY NIGHTFALL ABOVE THAT WOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO WIN THIS AUDIO BOOK
+1 MORE ENTRY: COMMENT ON ONE OF THE REVIEWS OR PRAISES ABOVE THAT INTERESTS YOU THE MOST. JUST NAME THE REVIEWER OR SOURCE
+1 MORE ENTRY: BLOG OR TWEET ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY AND LEAVE A LINK I CAN FOLLOW IN THE ENTRY
+1 MORE ENTRY: COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FIND INTERESTING ON MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S WEBSITE HERE. PERHAPS YOU MIGHT COMMENT ON ANOTHER BOOK OF HIS YOU HAVE READ, OR WOULD LIKE TO READ
+1 MORE ENTRY: COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FIND INTERESTING ON MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S WEBSITE HERE. PERHAPS YOU MIGHT COMMENT ON ANOTHER BOOK OF HIS YOU HAVE READ, OR WOULD LIKE TO READ
GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
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GOOD LUCK!!!
6 PM, EST, DECEMBER 4!
GOOD LUCK!!!
