A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
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A Home at the End of the World
A Novel

Author: Michael Cunningham

Narrator: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Blair Brown

Abridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2004

Synopsis

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.

About Michael Cunningham

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City, and is a senior lecturer at Yale University.

About Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell began turning heads in Hollywood when he starred in Joel Schumacher's Tigerland, for which he earned a Best Actor Award from the Boston Society of Film Critics.  Since then, he has starred in numerous films, including Miami Vice, Ask The Dust, The New World, The War Zone, Daredevil, Phone Booth, Minority Report, Alexander, and the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World. Along with Dallas Roberts and Blair Brown, Farrell narrated A Home at the End of the World, published by Macmillan Audio.In 2008, Farrell starred in the hilarious black comedy In Bruges, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe.  He's also acted alongside Edward Norton in the crime film Pride and Glory as well as with Jude Law and Johnny Depp in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

About Dallas Roberts

Dallas Roberts, a graduate of the Julliard School, made his debut in the film A Home at the End of the World.  On stage, he's appeared in Lanford Wilson's Burn This, True Love, and Nocturne (for which he received a Drama Desk nomination for lead actor in a play).  He's appeared on screen in 3:10 to Yuma, The River Why, Flicka, The Notorious Bettie Page, and Tell Tale.  He also appeared as Angus Partridge in the series The L Word.  Dallas has read several audiobooks including Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Christopher Rice's Light Before Day, and James Patterson's Run For Your Life.

About Blair Brown

Blair Brown has narrated a number of audiobooks, including works by John Grisham, Michael Cunningham, Stephen King, and Anne Tyler. Brown is an accomplished theater, film, and television actress.  Her roles on television included starring in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as well as appearing in Fringe, Frasier, Smallville, Touched by an Angel, ER, and Ed.  She has acted in numerous films, including The Astronaut’s Wife, The Sentinel, Space Cowboys, Loverboy, and Continental Divide, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.  Brown’s stage work includes acting in the Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen on Broadway.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by merri on 2007-06-14 01:48:48

This book was a fast read, but not terribly good. I didn't like any of the characters in this book. They just were not people I would like in real life.

Goodreads review by Violet on April 01, 2019

Perhaps one reason Shakespeare is so untouchably brilliant is that you have no idea who he is from his work. This is rarely true of novelists. Read a Fitzgerald or Hemmingway novel and there's the author himself on almost every page. No one doubts Dr Zhivago is Pasternak himself. And I could carry o......more

Goodreads review by Lee on June 01, 2007

This book was my introduction to Michael Cunningham, and when I finished it I cried. And then went out and bought everything he'd ever written. I fell in love with this book. At that time in my life I could relate to its characters and their story in a unique way, but it was also Cunningham's writin......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on October 16, 2018

This is the "Less than Zero"ish novel of the popular NYC writer, and just like Bret Easton Ellis' depiction of the derelict children of sunny Cali in the 80's, Cunningham encapsulates the latter 80's in the East Village & early 60's, 70's in the stark midwest) with lost souls and unique individuals.......more

Goodreads review by Pedro on December 31, 2020

In a time before I first read this novel I was still young enough to believe I was going to have to eventually place myself in one of the many categories that other people seemed to be placing themselves into. Then after I finished reading it and because its characters didn’t fall into any available......more

Quotes

“Lyrical . . . Memorable and accomplished.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Novels don't come more deeply felt than Cunningham's extraordinary four-character study . . . The writing [is] a constant pleasure, flowing and yet dense with incisive images and psychological nuance.” —Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

“The story of Jonathan, Clare, Bobby, and Alice is also the story of the 70's and 80's in America--and vice versa. It is destined to last.” —David Leavitt, author of The Marble Quilt

“Cunningham has written a novel that all but reads itself.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Once in a great while, there appears a novel so spellbinding in its beauty and sensitivity that the reader devours it nearly whole, in great greedy gulps, and feels stretched sore afterwards, having been expanded and filled. Such a book is [this one].” —Sherry Rosenthal, San Diego Tribune

“Luminous with the wonders and anxieties that make childhood mysterious . . . A Home at the End of the World is a remarkable accomplishment.” —Laura Frost, San Francisco Review

“Brilliant and satisfying . . . As good as anything I've read in years . . . Hope in the midst of tragedy is a fragile thing, and Cunningham carries it with masterful care.” —Gayle Kidder, San Diego Union

“Exquisitely written . . . Lyrical . . . An important book.” —Charleston Sunday News and Courier

“Cunningham writes with power and delicacy . . . We come to feel that we know Jonathan, Bobby, and Clare as if we lived with them; yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art.” —Richard Eder, The Los Angeles Times

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