Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham
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  • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Specimen Days, Flesh and Blood, and By Nightfall. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours, which was a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a Professor at Brooklyn College for the M.F.A program.


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The Hours by Michael Cunningham--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt and hear Michael Cunningham read from his novel The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction, and adapted into a film that was nominated for 9 Academy Awards.

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A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World, read by Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Blair Brown, and Jennifer Van Dyck. For the first time, an audio production is available of Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel—published to coincide with the release of the feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts.

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Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Michael Cunningham's novel Specimen Days, narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming. In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold novel, his first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age.

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By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Michael Cunningham's New York Times bestselling novel By Nightfall, narrated by Hugh Dancy. Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He's an art dealer, she's an editor. They live well.

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Land's End
Land's End

Michael Cunningham
Picador

"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...


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By Nightfall
By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham
Picador

A New York Times Bestseller Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He’s an art dealer, she’s an editor. They live well....


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Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood

Michael Cunningham
Picador

From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy. The epic tale...


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Laws for Creations
Laws for Creations

Walt Whitman; Selected and Introduced by Michael Cunningham
Picador

In Walt Whitman, Michael Cunningham sees a poet whose vision of humanity is ecstatic, democratic, and sensuous. Just over a hundred years ago, Whitman...


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Specimen Days
Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham
Picador

In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman....


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British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000
British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000

Michael Cunningham
Manchester University Press

This revised second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to British government policy in Northern Ireland. The book has been updated to cover the...


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The Hours
The Hours

Michael Cunningham
Picador

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...


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A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham
Picador

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely,...


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