A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

A Home at the End of the World: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham

A Home at the End of the World: A Novel
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Author: Michael Cunningham
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN: 0312424086
Number of pages: 342
Publisher: Picador

Book Reviews of A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

Book Review: Tragic. Beautiful. Intimate.
Summary: 5 Stars

I am going to disagree wholeheartedly with the reviewer that claims the movie is better than the book. Yes, it sometimes happens, but this is not one of those instances.
In my case, it was actually the movie that prompted my desire to read the book. Though it was written eighteen years ago, the story is (and will likely remain) timeless. The main characters, Bobby, Jonathan and Clare, and the secondary character of Alice--all narrative voices that comprise the work--are all human tragedies in their own right, but still heroic in some small way. It is almost as if Cunningham wrote this story about a group of people he knew personally and intimately. Furthermore, I think the story is an important one because it touches on a time in America when the AIDS epidemic was sweeping the country and destroying lives...a time when in reality, ignorance and fear ruled the day. The characters in Cunningham's work are courageous and flawed, but in such a way that will make you "root" for them. The writing is beautiful, genuine. I would argue that this is Cunningham's best book, though perhaps lesser known and recognized. I strongly recommend this book to any and all literary prose lovers. I could not put it down. A Home at the End of the World is a book I plan to read again in the future. It is a very haunting look at the not so distant past.

Summary of A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

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