By Nightfall

By Nightfall

Peter and Rebecca Harris are in their mid-forties and have been married for nearly twenty years. They have committed careers in the arts and a spacious loft in Manhattan's Soho - they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites, with every reason, it seems, to be happy.

Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, 'the mistake'), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at a loose end and looking for direction. In his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career - the entire world he has so carefully constructed.

Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York. He is the author of four novels including A Home at the End of the World (1990); Flesh and Blood (1995) and Specimen Days (2005). He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Hours in 1999 which was adapted for the screen and released as a movie starring Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, for which she won an Oscar.

By Nightfall
Harper Collins
Author: Michael Cunningham
ISBN: 9780007318513
Price: $27.99