| Land's End Contributor(s): Cunningham, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 125001770X ISBN-13: 9781250017703 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 917.449 |
| LCCN: 2012014915 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Barnstable-Yarmouth, Mass. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art. -The Washington Post Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions: slender, eloquent, enriching, and fun. . . . A casually lovely ode to Provincetown. -The Minneapolis Star TribuneCunningham rambles through Provincetown, gracefully exploring the unusual geography, contrasting seasons, long history, and rich stew of gay and straight, Yankee and Portuguese, old-timer and 'washashore' that flavors Cape Cod's outermost town. . . . Chock-full of luminous descriptions . . . . He's hip to its studied theatricality, ever-encroaching gentrification and physical fragility, and he can joke about its foibles and mourn its losses with equal aplomb. -Chicago Tribune A homage to the 'city of sand'. . . Filled with finely crafted sentences and poetic images that capture with equal clarity the mundanities of the A&P and Provincetown's magical shadows and light . . . Highly evocative and honest. It takes you there. -The Boston Globe |
Contributor Bio(s): Cunningham, Michael: - 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 Yorkerand 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. |