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De Griekse immigrant Constantine Stassos is het voorbeeld van 'the American Dream come true'. Als hij na jaren ploeteren onverwacht succes heeft, bouwt hij een droomhuis voor zijn Italiaans-Amerikaanse vrouw Mary en hun drie kinderen. Maar materiële welstand blijkt geen garantie voor geluk. Meer en meer reageert Stassos zijn bittere verleden af op zijn zoon Billy, in zijn ogen een slappeling - die hem tot zijn woede in intellectueel opzicht ook nog eens ver de baas is. In zijn dronken buien zoekt Stassos genegenheid bij zijn mooie lievelingsdochter Susan. Ook de jongste dochter Zoë vindt haar plek niet binnen het gezin. Zij zoekt geborgenheid in de anonimiteit van de New Yorkse zelfkant.

Peter en Rebecca Harris wonen in Soho, Manhattan, en naderen het hoogtepunt van hun carrières. Hij handelt in kunst, zij is redacteur van een kunsttijdschrift. Met een ruime loft, een dochter die werkt in Boston en een hechte kring levenslustige vrienden leiden Peter en Rebecca een succesvol en ogenschijnlijk benijdenswaardig leven. Onverwacht komt Rebecca's veel jongere broer Ethan, in de familie beter bekend als Mizzy, 'het Misverstand', op bezoek. De recalcitrante Mizzy, een mooie, verleidelijke twintiger met een drugsverleden, heeft niets omhanden en is op zoek naar richting in zijn leven. Zijn komst heeft grote invloed op de levens van Peter en Rebecca. Peter begint te twijfelen aan de kunstenaars in zijn stal, hun werk, en daarmee ook aan zijn vak _ kortom, aan de wereld die hij zorgvuldig om zich heen heeft gecreëerd. Zijn levensvragen brengen zijn relatie met Rebecca wezenlijk in gevaar.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan. There's 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.

An extraordinary travel guide to Provincetown, a small town at the tip of Cape Cod, known as the first landing of the Pilgrims and a haven for outsiders and visionaries. Michael Cunningham, enchanted by the town's charm, invites readers to explore his favorite place amidst sand and sea.

Get ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friends. And one very annoyed world. Based on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year. Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him, and the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you'll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again.

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.

Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.

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 create a new kind of family.

Provincetown, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. Written by the author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, this work brings us Provincetown, one of the extraordinary towns in the US, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.