{"title":"Michael Cunningham","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-hours","title":"The Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264209469734,"sku":"the-hours","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/6865ed70-01ed-42dc-b89a-351ed83b0cc0.jpg?v=1701430763"},{"product_id":"specimen-days","title":"Specimen Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Hours’ and new novel ‘The Snow Queen’, time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell’s ‘Cloud Atlas’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form ‘Specimen Days’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was ‘devoured’ by the machine he operated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd the third and final strand accompanies two strange beings into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA novel of connecting and reconnecting, inspired by the writings of the great visionary poet Walt Whitman, ‘Specimen Days’ is a genre-bending, haunting ode to life itself – a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520930234662,"sku":"0007156057","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/79696b19-b8cb-434e-8b04-e4b5df4f8e0e.jpg?v=1705668175"},{"product_id":"day","title":"Day","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAs the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eApril 5th, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eApril 5th, 2020:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts – and his secret Instagram life – for company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eApril 5th, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality – with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece … Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLess\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597483589926,"sku":"9780008637552","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/64c1d6e2-f32c-4f87-98a1-50e00f2619bc.jpg?v=1706729835"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/michael-cunningham.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}