The Snow Queen

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"For pure, elegant, efficient beauty, Cunningham is astounding. He's developxid ¦ this captivating narrative voice . Half Henry James, half James Joyce, but
all Cunningham, [By Nightfall is] an irresistible performance." ^ ' j.
-~Kon Charles, The Washirigton Post ' ' ^^^
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novct
begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet agaiii^ is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Although Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God, for that matter—^he can't deny what he's seen.
At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bush wick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's'older brother, a struggling musician with a drug problem, is trying—and failing—to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is... Tovább

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FICTION
"For pure, elegant, efficient beauty, Cunningham is astounding. He's developxid ¦ this captivating narrative voice . Half Henry James, half James Joyce, but
all Cunningham, [By Nightfall is] an irresistible performance." ^ ' j.
-~Kon Charles, The Washirigton Post ' ' ^^^
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novct
begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet agaiii^ is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Although Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God, for that matter—^he can't deny what he's seen.
At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bush wick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's'older brother, a struggling musician with a drug problem, 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 vpill be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of eternal love.
Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his deepest creative powers. And as Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon, she is aided by her friend Liz, a cynical but perversely maternal older woman.
Cunningham follows Barrett, Tyler, Beth, and Liz as they travel down decidedly different paths in their collective search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular imder-standing of what lies at the core of the human soul.
The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves once again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of this generation.
"Cunningham is dravm to simple, potent plots . . . saving his energy for the hearts and minds, the groins and guts, of his chaiacters.Yet he makes you turn the pages . . . You aren't deadened by detail; you're eager to know what happens next . . . Cimningham \p-ites so well, and wijh such an economy of language, that he can call up the poet's exact match." —Jeanette Winterson, Ti}e New York Times Book Review
Michael Cunningham is the author of six
novels, including Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as Land's End: A Vf^lk in^ Provincetown. He lives in New York. Vissza