A Home at the End of the World (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Cunningham Colin Farrell Dallas Roberts Jennifer Van Dyke Audible Studios Books
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It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places....
Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the '70s and '80s. And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days and By Nightfall.
A Home at the End of the World (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Cunningham Colin Farrell Dallas Roberts Jennifer Van Dyke Audible Studios Books
Michael Cunningham I read without referring to reviews - no matter what he writes. This started out as a sure-fire, five-star selection. Cunningham's writing style is superb. Such insight! Such definitive prose! But I got bogged down a bit during the middle. Got tired of Clare's actions and Jonathan's inability to get his life going. Well, I guess I shouldn't blame the author for that. Undoubtedly that's how he wanted it to happen. So, I'll give Clare and Jonathan about three stars, and make that up with Bobby and Alice, both of whom, in their own ways, seem to be survivors.What about plot and character? The novel definitely has a viable plot, even though it meanders somewhat aimlessly over several decades and multiple destinations. The ending seems true to the plot, i.e., you don't really know where the characters are going, which sums up the book nicely. Meanwhile, the individual character development is fine. The reader gets to know what the main characters are doing, although not necessarily why or what their activities and choices add up to. Once again, that's no doubt what the author wants to convey. The venues, as depicted by the author, are all dreary - Cleveland, Arizona, New York. Not exactly Reagan's shining city on a hill. But that fits in well with what the author seems to be saying about life.
I lived through the decades depicted, and it more or less shocks me to think I might have been like either Jonathan or Bobby. Not that they were evil, or even nonentities, or that my own life has been an uninterrupted series of highs, but their lives seemed so humdrum and unfocused.
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A Home at the End of the World (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Cunningham Colin Farrell Dallas Roberts Jennifer Van Dyke Audible Studios Books Reviews
Don't waste your time watching the movie. After reading the novel, I watched the movie and wish I could erase it from my memory. I didn't love the novel throughout, but I loved it enough to give it four stars. Cunningham so accurately conveys the most painful, open-ended dilemmas life presents us and how we try to achieve at least some sense of peace with them. How he crafts the boys' families and thier internal workings is mangnificent. I found both families realistically flawed. Definitely a worthy read.
OK, the writing was actually pretty amazing. But the story and the characters never really came alive for me. Felt like I didn't know them at all. If there was a 3.5 star rating that is where I would put it. I can't give it a 4 and I don't feel great about giving it a 3. If you are a fan of Cunningham, you will be ok with it, just not blown away.
As always a fantastically written novel, but I believe if you are to enjoy this book, you should with each small moment rather than the overall story, for it makes a point that your life does not have to be particularly happy for it to be fulfilling, and as beautiful as this book is, I'd have to say the same for it, that the happiness each character experienced was fleeting and made me anxious for its end. If you don't mind a strange, unhappy book, I greatly suggest this one, for you won't find a writer quite like Michael Cunningham and his firm grip on human emotion, on humanity itself. I myself connecting to all the good and foolish, selfish characters in this book, it was almost terrifying
The last time I read a book was...I don't remember. I saw this movie and was entranced enough (and felt there was some missing material...maybe a lot) to buy, and then actually read, this book. Twice. I guess I liked it the first time, and I liked it the second time too.
You probably don't have to be gay (or bisexual or whatever) to fully appreciate this book, but I think some familiarity with it would help, and might be the difference between enjoying this or just finding it strange and unrelentingly frustrating.
Michael Cunningham has impressed me with his command of the language and his distinctive ability to describe and bring to life the inner feelings and outer personality of his characters. I cared about them, and I wanted them to find what they were looking for.
The story affirms and celebrates differences and our search for fulfillment and love among the wreckage of human weakness, failings, and general imperfection.
If you've seen the movie and had the urge to more fully examine and know these characters and the story, be warned that the book isn't identical to the movie. However, it's worth the time to read, and it's more satisfying in many ways. I think you will enjoy it.
This was a wonderful story. The movie of course doesn't do it justice. The writing style was magnificent and in places so eloquent, and almost poetic. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Michael Cunningham has once again written a beautiful novel. The characters each lack the ability to completely open themselves to another person. Each one needs the others to almost make a whole. Their love for each other is far more pure than they truly realize. There are moments when one of them begins to comprehend how deeply he or she loves and needs the others. This results in that person withdraws psychologically or physically runs away. Pain and loss has touched them all leaving them deeply scarred. The reader is privy to what they each cannot or will not accept about their relationships. The tenderness, sweetness and devotion is inspiring but often tenuous. The novel is beautiful. It is often sad. Mainly it is a story of true love.
Michael Cunningham I read without referring to reviews - no matter what he writes. This started out as a sure-fire, five-star selection. Cunningham's writing style is superb. Such insight! Such definitive prose! But I got bogged down a bit during the middle. Got tired of Clare's actions and Jonathan's inability to get his life going. Well, I guess I shouldn't blame the author for that. Undoubtedly that's how he wanted it to happen. So, I'll give Clare and Jonathan about three stars, and make that up with Bobby and Alice, both of whom, in their own ways, seem to be survivors.
What about plot and character? The novel definitely has a viable plot, even though it meanders somewhat aimlessly over several decades and multiple destinations. The ending seems true to the plot, i.e., you don't really know where the characters are going, which sums up the book nicely. Meanwhile, the individual character development is fine. The reader gets to know what the main characters are doing, although not necessarily why or what their activities and choices add up to. Once again, that's no doubt what the author wants to convey. The venues, as depicted by the author, are all dreary - Cleveland, Arizona, New York. Not exactly Reagan's shining city on a hill. But that fits in well with what the author seems to be saying about life.
I lived through the decades depicted, and it more or less shocks me to think I might have been like either Jonathan or Bobby. Not that they were evil, or even nonentities, or that my own life has been an uninterrupted series of highs, but their lives seemed so humdrum and unfocused.
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