New Releases by Michael Cunningham

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR , LIT HUB Y KIRKUS REVIEWS , ENTRE OTROS El ganador de los premios Pulitzer y Pen Faulkner por Las horas vuelve a mostrar «su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundo en toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura». Colm Tóibín 5 de abril de 2019: la primavera despunta en Brooklyn y en el hogar de los Walker-Byrne la felicidad doméstica se resquebraja lentamente. Dan e Isabel han empezado a distanciarse, y el hecho de que Robbie, el encantador y frágil hermano de ella, al que todos adoran, deba abandonar la casa no es algo que ayude. Mientras este busca apartamento e intenta superar su último fracaso sentimental ocultándose tras un glamuroso avatar en las redes, Nathan, el hijo de diez años, da pasos inseguros hacia la adolescencia y su hermana Violet, de cinco, hace lo posible por aliviar el desencanto familiar. Dividida en tres actos que tienen lugar el mismo día de 2019, 2020 y 2021, Día es una asombrosa exploración del amor y la pérdida, las dificultades y las limitaciones de la vida familiar: una «narración desgarradoramente convincente sobre los tiempos que vivimos. [...] Una novela brillante de nuestro más brillante escritor». Colum McCann La crítica ha dicho... «Michael Cunningham muestra su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundo en toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura. [...] Refleja con agudeza y brillantez el Nueva York contemporáneo». Colm Tóibín «Uno comprende que Michael Cunningham es un escritor único y no apenas uno de tantos narradores ya en las dos primeras páginas de Día. [...] Una 'love story' en el sentido más amplio-delicado a la vez que majestuoso, alegre y cortesano como minué y ominoso y solitario como marcha funeraria- del término». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural «El autor explora las oportunidades perdidas, la evaporación del deseo y la creciente irrelevancia que amenaza con asfixiarnos en el mundo contemporáneo. [...] Solo un autor de la sensibilidad de Cunningham es capaz de captar los matices de las tormentas que se desatan bajo la superficie de una aparente calma». Marta Rebón, El Mundo - La Lectura «Una historia de subrayada intimidad y naturalismo que disecciona con enorme percepción las grietas que abre el tiempo en las parejas». Javier Ors, La Razón «La trama fluye sin trabas -ajena a los marchamos de literatura experimental- para hablar de amor, de desafección, de ternura, de expectativas no cumplidas». Andrea Aguilar, El País «Cunningham es uno de nuestros grandes escritores estadounidenses, y aquí tenemos otra obra maestra. [...] Consigue lo que solo los grandes libros logran. Leerlo te transformará». Andrew Sean Greer «Otra exquisita novela de Cunningham». The Boston Globe «Un retrato absolutamente impactante de la humanidad. [...] Una obra maestra». Literary Hub «Uno de los mejores cronistas del amor». Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times «Junto con George Eliot, Cunningham pertenece a ese inusual grupo de novelistas que valoran el mundo y a quienes lo habitan, con respeto, compasión y una ternura aparentemente infinita, al tiempo que lo analizan sin contemplaciones». Tony Kushner «Un logro de excepcional belleza y equilibrio». Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Une méditation magistrale sur le temps, l’amour et la mort, hantée par les démons de Virginia Woolf. Trois femmes, trois époques, une journée. Angleterre, 1923. Virginia vient d’achever Mrs Dalloway. Dans le New York de la fin du XXe siècle, Clarissa accompagne Richard dans sa terrible maladie. Laura, femme au foyer californienne des années 1950, est accablée par l’ennui. Dans ce roman bouleversant de sensibilité, les heures défilent et métamorphosent ces héroïnes que tout semble séparer, hormis peut-être les maux de l’âme et le rêve d’un ailleurs. « Les Heures sonnent comme un subtil mécanisme d'horlogerie aux rouages de dentelle noire. Assurément splendide. » Elle Né en 1952, Michael Cunningham est un romancier et scénariste américain. D’abord connu pour ses textes dans le New Yorker, il connaît la consécration grâce à son roman La Maison du bout du monde. Chef-d’œuvre unanimement salué, Les Heures, prix Pulitzer 1999, a été adapté au cinéma par Stephen Daldry avec Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman et Julianne Moore. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Anne Damour PRIX PULITZER 1999 PRIX PEN/FAULKNER 1999

5 avril 2019. Dans une maison de Brooklyn, le vernis du bonheur familial se fissure. Dan et Isabel s’éloignent peu à peu mais trouvent refuge auprès de Robbie, le jeune frère d’Isabel. Robbie qui habite toujours dans le grenier et vit par procuration à travers un avatar glamour en ligne. Il y a aussi Nathan, dix ans, et sa sœur Violet, cinq ans, qui tentent de ne pas remarquer le fossé qui se creuse entre leurs parents. 5 avril 2020. Alors que le monde est confiné, la maison se transforme en prison. Violet est terrifiée à l’idée de laisser les fenêtres ouvertes. Isabel et Dan communiquent par des soupirs de frustration. Et Robbie est bloqué en Islande… 5 avril 2021. La famille doit faire face à une nouvelle réalité, très différente. Car tout a changé. Trois journées d’avril comme la chronique ininter­rompue d’un couple qui s’essouffle, d’une famille qui vacille. Michael Cunningham réussit à merveille à nous plonger dans la vie de personnages célestes, tout en nuances et en émotion. Un grand roman pour son retour à la littérature. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par David Fauquemberg Michael Cunningham, né en 1952, est un romancier et scénariste américain. Son roman Les Heures a reçu le prix Pulitzer en 1999 et a été adapté au cinéma par Stephen Daldry avec, dans les rôles principaux, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman et Julianne Moore. Il a enseigné à Columbia University et est actuellement professeur à Yale University.

Barrett Meeks, reduce dall’ennesima delusione amorosa, sta camminando per Central Park quando all’improvviso sente di dover guardare verso il cielo; lassù vede una luce pallida, evanescente, che sembra illuminare proprio lui con un’aura quasi divina. Barrett non crede nelle visioni – o in Dio – ma non può negare ciò a cui ha appena assistito. Allo stesso tempo, nel modesto quartiere di Bushwick, a Brooklyn, Tyler, il fratello di Barrett, un musicista ancora in cerca del successo, sta tentando – con poca fortuna – di scrivere una canzone per la sua fidanzata Beth, da eseguire il giorno del loro prossimo matrimonio. Beth è molto malata e Tyler è deciso a scrivere una canzone che non sia solo una ballata romantica, ma una vera e propria promessa di eterno amore. Barrett, ossessionato dalla luce, si butta a capofitto nella religione. Tyler, invece, si convince sempre più che solo le droghe possono sbloccare la sua vena creativa. Beth, da parte sua, cerca di affrontare la vita con la forza e il coraggio che riesce a raccogliere. La regina delle nevi è un romanzo splendido e commovente, che sa essere comico e tragico, con un equilibrio che solo i grandi autori come Michael Cunningham, vincitore del premio Pulitzer per Le ore, riescono a padroneggiare per creare storie e personaggi indimenticabili.

Peter e Rebecca Harris sono una coppia di mezza età, sposati da oltre vent’anni. Vivono a New York e lavorano entrambi nel campo dell’arte, lui come gallerista e lei come direttrice di una rivista. Benestanti, realizzati, ben inseriti nella vita sociale newyorkese, proprietari di un appartamento in una zona prestigiosa, non hanno preoccupazioni se non il freddo rapporto con la figlia Bea, che vive a Boston. Ai più, comunque, la loro vita sembra perfetta, o perlomeno invidiabile. Qualcosa cambia quando il fratello di Rebecca, Ethan, conosciuto in famiglia come Erry (da Errore), si trasferisce a vivere a casa loro. Ethan ha ventitré anni, è giovane, bello, intelligente e problematico. Giura però di aver superato la sua dipendenza dalle droghe e spera di riuscire a combinare “qualcosa nel campo delle arti” a New York, per questo ha chiesto ospitalità alla sorella. Peter lo accoglie di malavoglia e solo per fare felice Rebecca, ma ben presto si rende conto che il giovane esercita su di lui un fascino nuovo, oscuro e pericoloso, tanto da spingerlo a mettere in discussione le fondamenta della sua vita. Michael Cunningham racconta, sullo sfondo della New York dell’arte ferita dalla crisi economica, la storia di una persona che si crede speciale ed è incredibilmente e dolorosamente normale, indagando le fragilità, le segrete aspirazioni, i sogni e le paure di un uomo che, alla soglia della maturità, deve fare i conti con se stesso.

Michael Cunninghams Pulitzerprisvindende Timerne skildrer tre dage i tre vidt forskellige kvinders liv. Clarissa Vaughan, forlagsredaktør i 1990'ernes New York, forbereder et selskab for sin ven, digteren Richard, og går en smuk junimorgen ud for at købe blomster. Virginia Woolf er mere end 70 år tidligere i færd med at skrive sin berømte roman Mrs. Dalloway og overvejer forskellige åbninger. I Los Angeles i 1949 er den hjemmegående husmor Laura Brown netop begyndt at læse Mrs. Dalloway, men afbrydes, fordi sønnen Richie og ægtemanden Dan kræver hendes opmærksomhed. Vi følger de tre kvinder i løbet af hver deres dag, og på overraskende vis knyttes deres skæbner sammen.

Det er november 2004. 38-årige Barrett Meeks er nok engang ramt af kærlighedskvaler og går nedbtrykt gennem Central Park. Pludselig ser han et blegt, gennemskinneligt lys på nattehimlen. Barrett tror ikke på åbenbaringer – og heller ikke på Gud – men han kan ikke benægte det, han har oplevet. Samtidig, i den mindre mondæne del af Brooklyn, kæmper Barretts ældre bror, musikeren Tyler, med at skrive en bryllupssang til sin kommende hustru, Beth. Beth er alvorligt syg, og Tyler er fast besluttet på, at sangen skal stå som et varigt udtryk for hans kærlighed til hende. Plaget af sin åbenbaring søger Barrett religionen. Tyler derimod bliver mere og mere overbevist om, at kun kokain kan frigøre de kreative evner. Imens forsøger Beth at forlige sig med sin egen dødelighed med så meget mod, hun kan mønstre. Snedronningen er smuk og hjerteskærende, komisk og tragisk. Et stærkt portræt af to brødres midtvejskriser, deres længsel efter at høre til og finde en mening i tilværelsen. “Mr. Cunningham’s most original and emotionally piercing book to date." - New Tork Times

Em Um cisne selvagem e outras histórias, sombrios contos de fada são reimaginados pelo premiado autor vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer Michael Cunningham, e ricamente ilustrados por Yuko Shimizu. Uma maçã envenenada e uma pata de macaco que têm o poder de mudar o destino; uma menina cujos cabelos extraordinariamente compridos são responsáveis por uma catástrofe; um homem com um braço humano e uma asa de cisne; e uma casa, bem nos confins da floresta, feita de confeitos de goma e biscoito de gengibre, glacê de baunilha e açúcar cozido. Em Um cisne selvagem e outras histórias, os habitantes e talismãs de terras distantes, muito distantes – as figuras míticas de nossa infância –, se veem transformados pelo premiado autor Michael Cunningham em histórias de sublime revelação. Aqui estão os momentos que esqueceram de nos contar ou deliberadamente ocultaram nos contos de fadas: os anos posteriores à quebra de um feitiço, o instante arrebatador em que um milagre é concretizado e o destino de um príncipe curado só pela metade de uma maldição. Há também a história do homenzinho com um talento especial que trama para conseguir um filho. E o preguiçoso João, que prefere viver no porão de sua mãe a correr atrás de um emprego, até o dia em que troca uma vaca por um punhado de feijões mágicos. Reimaginados por um dos mais talentosos contadores de histórias da sua geração e ilustrados com delicadeza por Yuko Shimizu – em um estilo que lembra Aubrey Beardsley com um toque de Maurice Sendak –, os contos da hora de dormir nunca foram tão sombrios, perversos e realistas. "Cunningham reconta de modo elegante e ousado dez contos de fadas clássicos, intensificando o mistério inquietante das versões originais. As notáveis ilustrações em preto e branco de Yuko Shimizu constituem um contraponto visual adequado a esta coletânea simultaneamente sombria e maravilhosa." Publishers Weekly

From an Eisner award winning artist, a guide to creating fantasy figures for comics, graphic novels, sci-fi book covers and illustrations, and computer games. Fantasy artists are unlikely to use models to draw from life but, to be successful, their creations must have a grounding in reality. This book teaches the artist the principles of anatomy, from musculature and skeletal structure through to movement. You can then develop your artistic style by breaking and bending the rules of anatomy through practical exercises and demonstrations, accompanied by incredible finished artworks. The step-by-step exercises help the artist to fully understand the subtle movements that combine to create expressions, and the flowing movements that constitute actions. This is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in improving and developing their fantasy art figures.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Cuốn sách là câu chuyện về cuộc đời và số phận của ba người phụ nữ. Trong đó Virginia Woolf là một nhân vật có thật ở ngoài đời, và hai người phụ nữ còn lại: Laura Brown và Clarissa là sự sáng tạo “có liên quan” của tác giả Michael Cunningham. Virginia Woolf là một nữ nhà văn người Anh đang viết cuốn tiểu thuyết Bà Dalloway. Laura Brown đang cùng con trai chuẩn bị bánh kem sinh nhật cho chồng với những suy nghĩ ngổn ngang về những điều cô đọc trong cuốn Bà Dollaway. Cuối cùng, câu chuyện diễn ra trong bối cảnh New York hiện đại nơi mà Clarissa Vaughan cũng đang chuẩn bị một bữa tiệc chúc mừng cho người bạn của mình đoạt được giải thưởng. Cuốn sách có sự đan xen giữa các nhân vật để tạo mạch liên kết cho toàn bộ câu chuyện. Và cũng nhờ đó mà những giá trị, tư tưởng qua các thời kỳ dần được hé lộ. Người phụ nữ thế kỷ XX trong từng giai đoạn sẽ có gì giống nhau và khác nhau, và liệu họ có giống như chúng ta- những người phụ nữ của thế kỷ XXI - về phương diện tư tưởng và những giá trị nhân sinh quan khác hay không? Hãy cùng đón đọc Thời khắc – tiểu thuyết được nhận giải Pulitzer 1999 - để có cái nhìn sâu sắc và toàn cảnh hơn.

¿Qué tienen en común un chico que se enamora perdidamente de la novia de su hermano muerto en un accidente fabril a principios del siglo XX; una psicóloga forense que investiga a un joven terrorista que planea un atentado en la Nueva York posterior al 11S; y un androide que se obsesiona con una inmigrante extraterrestre en un futuro lejano? Walt Whitman. Con toda su potencia alucinada, las palabras de Whitman y su Hojas de hierba emergen en la narración como faros que iluminan oblicuamente los deseos, traumas y pasiones de los personajes de estas tres historias electrizantes situadas en la Nueva York del pasado, el presente y el futuro, y, tal como ocurría con Virginia Woolf en Las horas (ganadora del Premio Pulitzer), le otorgan a esta conmovedora y ambiciosa novela de Michael Cunningham un sentido trascendente que la inocula para siempre en la memoria. "El libro de los días ofrece todo tipo de placeres literarios, y todos en abundancia: suspenso, hilaridad, inventiva, romance, y un pasaje tras otro de una prosa que nos deja sin aliento". Ethan Canin "Este es un libro transformador, un registro encantador y desgarrado de nuestro tiempo y lugar, y de nuestro deseo de prevalecer". The New York Observer

“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, 1928 About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a unique and disruptive fashion chronology that conflates notions of past, present, and future. Virginia Woolf serves as “ghost narrator”: excerpts from her novels reflect on the passage of time with each subsequent plate pairing. A new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours, recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions. Scholar Theodore Martin analyzes theoretical responses to the nature of time, underscoring that time is not simply a sequence of historical events. And fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope illustrates 120 fashions with sublime black and-white photography. This stunning book reveals fashion’s paradoxical connection to linear notions of time.

Michael Cunningham erzählt die alten Märchen neu – er betrachtet sie aus einem anderen Blickwinkel, hinterfragt sie mit Witz und Verve und zeigt dabei, wie zeitlos sie sind. Noch nie waren Märchen so lustig und raffiniert, so düster und sexy – und so wahr. Rumpelstilzchen, Hänsel und Gretel, Schneewittchen und Rapunzel – wer erinnert sich nicht an die Gutenachtgeschichten aus der Kindheit, an Märchen, die uns verzauberten und schaudern machten. Einer der begnadetsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller holt nun diese und andere Märchen in unsere Gegenwart und erzählt, was sie verschwiegen oder vergessen haben oder wie es nach dem angeblichen Ende »wirklich« weitergeht. Und welch tiefe Abgründe sich an jeder Ecke auftun können. Die altüberlieferten Mythen über Könige und Prinzessinnen, Flüche, Zauber, Habgier und Verlangen erweisen sich in Michael Cunninghams spielerischen, so ironischen wie klugen Erzählungen als verblüffend modern und menschlich.

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Novo livro do premiado autor de As Horas Barrett Meeks, que acabou de perder mais um amor, está à deriva. Ao atravessar o Central Park, ele se vê repentinamente inspirado a erguer os olhos para o céu, onde uma luz pálida e translúcida parece encará-lo de uma forma nitidamente divina. Ao mesmo tempo, seu irmão mais velho Tyler, músico viciado em drogas, tenta em vão escrever uma canção de amor para sua noiva, Beth, que está gravemente doente. Barrett, assombrado por aquela luz, inesperadamente recorre à religião. Tyler, por sua vez, se convence cada vez mais de que apenas as drogas serão capazes de dar vazão à sua verve criativa mais profunda. E enquanto Beth tenta encarar a morte com o máximo de coragem possível, sua amiga Liz, uma mulher mais velha — cínica, porém perversamente maternal —, lhe oferece ajuda. Guiados pela narrativa sublime de Michael Cunnningham, acompanhamos Barrett, Tyler, Beth e Liz à medida que trilham caminhos definitivamente distintos em sua busca coletiva pela transcendência. Numa prosa sutil e lúcida, o autor demonstra uma profunda empatia por seus conflituosos personagens, além de uma compreensão singular daquilo que reside no âmago da alma humana.

Jonathan und Bobby sind Freunde seit ihrer Kindheit. In New York begegnen sie der exzentrischen Clare, die sich zu beiden Männern hingezogen fühlt. Als sie ein Kind von Bobby erwartet, ziehen die drei gemeinsam aufs Land, in ein altes Farmhaus ganz in der Nähe des legendären Woodstock. Hier wollen sie ein neues Leben beginnen ... Die bewegende Geschichte dreier Menschen auf der Suche nach dem Glück abseits ausgetretener Pfade.

Sinds hun moeder door de bliksem werd getroffen, zijn de broers Barrett en Tyler in de ban van tekenen van hogerhand. Barrett gelooft niet in God, maar nadat hij een visioen heeft aanschouwd aan de nachtelijke hemel van New York begint hij te twijfelen aan zijn afwijzing van het geloof, en zoekt hij zijn heil meer en meer in de kerk. Tyler, Barretts oudere broer, die op het punt staat met zijn doodzieke geliefde Beth te trouwen, maakt zijn eigen worsteling door: hij probeert het perfecte lied voor haar te schrijven, een lied dat in woorden en melodie zijn eeuwige liefde voor haar uitdrukt, maar dat steeds net buiten zijn bereik blijft. Beiden hebben vrede met Beths naderende einde, maar als er onverwacht verbetering in haar situatie lijkt te komen, worden ze alle drie overvallen door tegenstrijdige gevoelens van hoop, schuld en ontgoocheling. In De sneeuwkoningin volgen we Barrett en Tyler, en de mensen die hen omringen, op hun zoektocht naar zingeving. Michael Cunningham zit zijn personages dicht op de huid en overrompelt de lezer met de intensiteit van zijn pen. Tegelijk brengt hij met deze roman een eerbetoon aan de kracht van literatuur, van op papier opgeroepen werelden. Michael Cunningham (1952) is een van de grote schrijvers van het moderne, westerse levensgevoel. Hij werd beroemd met zijn bestsellers Bloedverwanten, Huis aan het einde van de wereld, De uren, Stralende dagen en Bij het vallen van de avond. Voor De uren ontving hij zowel de Pulitzer Prize als de pen/Faulkner Award. Hij woont in New York. Over De uren: `Halverwege was ik sprakeloos van bewondering. Wat een prachtige hommage. Niet alleen aan Virginia Woolf, maar aan de ziel van de literatuur. de Groene Amsterdammer Over Bij het vallen van de avond: `Bij het vallen van de avond is onderhoudend, goed geobserveerd en getuigt van diep psychologisch inzicht. Het Parool `Een dromerig-filosofische roman die getuigt van Cunninghams talent voor melancholieke zinnen en scherpe psychologische portretten. NRC Handelsblad

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God—but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying—and failing—to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon. Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul. The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

Ein Tag im Leben dreier Frauen: Clarissa Vaughan spaziert an einem strahlenden Junimorgen durch die Straßen von New York. Es ist das pulsierende New York der späten neunziger Jahre. Clarissa will Blumen für eine Party besorgen, die sie an diesem Abend für ihren aidskranken Freund Richard geben will, der soeben einen bedeutenden Literaturpreis erhalten hat. Sie kennen sich seit Jahrzehnten, für kurze Zeit waren sie auch ein Paar. Richard gab ihr den Spitznamen Mrs. Dalloway, weil sie ihn an die Heldin aus Virginia Woolfs gleichnamigen Roman erinnert. Laura Brown ist mit einem Kriegsveteranen verheiratet, der rührend um sie bemüht ist, ihr kleiner Sohn liebt sie abgöttisch, sie ist zum zweitenmal schwanger. Doch das Hausfrauenleben in einem Vorort von Los Angeles erdrückt sie. An einem Tag im Jahr 1949 flieht sie vor den alltäglichen Pflichten, mietet sich ein Zimmer in einem Hotel und liest fasziniert "Mrs. Dalloway". Virginia Woolf ringt im Jahr 1923 um den Anfang ihres neuen Romans, dem sie den Arbeitstitel "The Hours" (Die Stunden) gegeben hat und der einmal "Mrs. Dalloway" heißen wird. Sie hat Kopfschmerzen und hört Stimmen, und sie vermisst die Großstadt, obwohl sie weiß, dass ihr der Rückzug aufs Land nach Richmond gut tut. Fast steigt sie in den Zug nach London, nur fast, denn nun schreibt sie den ersten Satz: "Mrs. Dalloway sagte, sie wolle die Blumen selber kaufen." In seinem überwältigend schönen und bewegenden Roman schildert Michael Cunningham einen Tag im Leben dieser drei Frauen. Von Virginia Woolfs Leben und Werk inspiriert, schafft er eine ganz eigene Welt, die sich um die Möglichkeiten von Freundschaft und Liebe dreht, um das Auffangen von Scheitern und Lebensüberdruss und um eine Gemeinschaft jenseits von Leben und Tod: der Literatur.

This is a powerful story of a man of God who learned to overcome hurts, fear, grief, and discouragement. Micheal Cunningham story is a moving and uplifting book that shows how he was able to find freedom from captivity to a variety of adverse circumstances that occurred throughout his life. Jesus said,"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me...

On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, better known as the JOBS Act. The act is designed to “reopen American capital markets to small companies,” defined in the act as Emerging Growth Companies. This is one of the most significant legislative initiatives in finance since the Securities and Exchange Acts of 1933 and 1934, and it opens up funding to a slew of companies previously shut out of the capital markets. Here’s the good news: Small businesses and startups will be able to raise up to $1 million in equity (or debt) funding online via what are called Crowdfunding Platforms—online communities and websites. Imagine an eBay-like site that allows you to post your idea for a commercial venture online and then allows investors to purchase equity shares or stakes in it. As one journalist put it, it’s “social media meets venture capital.” How can you get in on the new funding opportunities? That’s what The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups is all about. Investment expert William Michael Cunningham shows how the new law will enable you to use the internet to raise significant amounts of capital funding for your startup. After discussing briefly the development and implementation of the law, what it means, and how it will impact the business startup marketplace, he delivers the nuts and bolts of how to take advantage of the JOBS Act to access new sources of capital for your small business or startup. As you’ll see, the act has the power to unleash a new wave of innovation, increase employment, and set many more average entrepreneurs and investors on the road to wealth. Not just for entrepreneurs, The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups will benefit investors, securities lawyers, community development specialists, educators, venture capitalists, and those offering services in the newcrowdfunding arena. It is, simply, the most current and most comprehensive compendium of information on the law and its impact on this new market.

First published in the United States: [New York]: Crown Journeys, c2002.