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As 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.
April 5th, 2019: 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.
April 5th, 2020: 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.
April 5th, 2021: 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.
From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day 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.
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Day
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‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm TóibÃn, author of Brooklyn ‘A
brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann,
author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean
Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous As 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. April 5th, 2019: 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. April 5th,
2020: 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. April 5th, 2021: 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. From the brilliant
mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day 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. ‘Cunningham is
one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece
… Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: 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.
Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunningham’s exquisite and deeply moving new novel, which takes Woolf’s life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham’s elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource
for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for
evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to
manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved
without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the
standards and set up regional training programs for smaller
jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples,
checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing.
CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident
investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science
will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene-and
the personnel charged with tending to the evidence-should be
managed.
A glimpse inside a magical Tuscan villa--rustic yet urbane,
old-world elegant yet bohemian, accessible yet personal--that
nurtures the world's finest literary talents. In the hills above
Florence, Santa Maddalena is like a secret garden where writers
hone their craft and meet like-minded people. Paired with evocative
images, these essays by 27 acclaimed authors invite readers to
understand how the spirit of this restored villa, its owners and
resident pets have inspired creative writing and creativity among
so many. Monti della Corte and her late husband, Gregor von
Rezzori, transformed a ruin into the ultimate retreat where they
would write, garden, and entertain friends and fellow
artists--Pedro Almodovar, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Hockney,
Isabella Rossellini. This gracious weaving together of hospitality
and creativity became the Santa Maddalena Foundation and writers'
fellowship program in 2000.
The second edition of this book shows how full implementation of
the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act by the SEC in 2016
enables entrepreneurs and SME executives to leverage crowdfunding
platforms to raise significant amounts of capital for their
startups and small-to-medium-sized businesses. The unprecedented
fundraising opportunities contained in the hundreds of pages of new
SEC rules have generated tremendous excitement in the startup,
small business, angel investing, and venture capital
worlds-tempered by uncertainty about the correct interpretation of
the rules and the compliance risks implicit in them.In The JOBS
Act: Crowdfunding Guide for Small Businesses and Startups, 2nd
Edition, crowdfunding pioneer William Michael Cunningham trawls the
hundreds of pages of new rules for the essential takeaways and
practical tips on successfully tapping the new crowdfunding sources
that the JOBS Act opens up to small businesses and startups, while
complying with new SEC regulations in the least burdensome way. The
2nd edition of The JOBS Act delivers the following new material:
Updates and augments the 1st edition with description, analysis,
and discussion of post-2012 SEC rules and forms implementing the
JOBS Act Focuses on the final SEC rules that implement Title III
("Regulation Crowdfunding") and Title IV ("Regulation A+") to make
the JOBS Act a practical fundraising vehicle for small business and
startups Presents case studies of successful JOBS Act-compliant
crowdfunding campaigns Tips readers to the opportunities,
loopholes, and hazards in the hundreds of pages of new SEC rules
that crowdfunders need know to maximize their fundraising success
and avoid inadvertent non-compliance Deploys new graphical analysis
tools and financial models summarizing and comparing
characteristics of various equity-based and donation-based
crowdfunding campaigns Reviews and describes significant Title III
offerings and highlights relevant Title IV offerings Lists all
SEC/FINRA-approved equity crowdfunding platforms ("funding
portals") Describes Title VII and provides crowdfunding-pertinent
information on the new Offices of Women and Minority Inclusion at
twenty-nine federal agencies Who This Book Is For Entrepreneurs and
small business owners who wish to leverage the JOBS Act to
crowdfund their enterprises. The secondary readerships are
investors, angels, venture capitalists, securities lawyers,
community development specialists, and visitors to crowdfunding
platforms, which are required under the JOBS Act to demonstrate to
the SEC and FINRA that they are proactively providing educational
resources to potential crowdfunders.
"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
Tribune""Cunningham 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"
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By Nightfall (Paperback)
Michael Cunningham
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From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the
story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken
identity. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a
big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene.
He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Their
marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even
describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca's much younger brother
Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with
a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in
his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his
desires, his career - the entire world he has so carefully
constructed for himself. Making us think deeply about the uses of
beauty and the place of love in our lives, By Nightfall is
heartbreaking look at the way we live now.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time,
technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel
that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas,
Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three
linked narratives that form 'Specimen Days'. The first, a science
fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was 'devoured' by
the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in
our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a
group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies two
strange beings into the future. A 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.
'Luminously written ... page-turningly enjoyable, this is a
profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning
novelist' Sunday Times Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks
sees a translucent light in the sky that regards him in a
distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions - or in
God - but he can't deny what he's seen. In nearby Brooklyn, Tyler,
Barrett's older brother, is trying - and failing - to write a
wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill.
Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced
that only drugs can release his creative powers. The Snow Queen,
beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that
Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.
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Mrs. Dalloway (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Michael Cunningham
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Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource
for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for
evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to
manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved
without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the
standards and set up regional training programs for smaller
jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples,
checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing.
CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident
investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science
will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene-and
the personnel charged with tending to the evidence-should be
managed.
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Day - A Novel
Michael Cunningham
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Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are some of his most elegant and charming
pieces of writing. He produced two books of fairy tales -- THE
HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, and A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES . They've
rarely been collected in one volume -- and never with stunning
artwork by Yuko Shimizu (THE UNWRITTEN, BARBED WIRE BASEBALL, A
WILD SWAN), one of the modern masters of illustration and graphic
art. Wilde's original fairy tales are moving, sweet, sad and
magical -- much like Yuko's artwork. Yuko is one of the most
celebrated and admired editorial illustrators in the world, and her
work is perfectly aligned with Wilde's witty, rueful voice. The
edition also features an original introduction by the Pulitzer
Prize winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Illuminated Editions is
a series of works of classic fiction, prose, and poetry,
beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated in exquisitely
produced small-batch editions. These volumes intend to harken back
to the lovingly crafted, handsomely bound illustrated books of the
Victorian era and the golden age of illustration, re-imagined using
modern design sensibilities and the most modern techniques in
presentation, book-craft, and printing. Each cloth-bound volume in
this series is presented in a die-cut slipcase, printed on high
quality wood-free uncoated paper, and powerfully elaborated by one
of the finest graphic artists in the world.
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The Hours (Hardcover)
Michael Cunningham
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This book offers a critical consideration of the apology in
politics. It provides a detailed overview of all aspects of the
phenomenon of the apology made by states, which has increased
significantly since the mid-1980s. It is the product of a decade's
research and reflection on the subject and thus provides a complete
coverage of all the key debates and features. States of apology
evaluates the relationship between the personal apology and the
apology in politics, the political and cultural factors behind its
emergence and the philosophical problems generated by the state
apologising and in particular the question of responsibility across
generations. The book also considers the dynamics of domestic
apologies and the relationship of the apology to the field of
international relations. It is written in a clear and jargon-free
style which will make it accessible to both students and
non-students alike. -- .
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The Hours (Paperback)
Michael Cunningham
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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 praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times 'He's almost certainly
not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave
Gorman 'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so much.
Glorious." Dom Joly 'Probably the funniest thing I've read this
year' Rufus Hound Get ready for the online adventures of one man
who just wants to make friends And one very annoyed world Based on
the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make
Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year.
Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral
DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or
trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale,
Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that
people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him and
the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you'll never think
about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way
ever again. 'Finally, someone has worked out a good use for social
media and it's brilliantly, painfully funny' Iain Morris,
Co-creator of The Inbetweeners 'Michael is the funniest human on
the internet, bar none. Read his book, you cowards' James Felton,
author of 52 Times Britain was a Bellend
The dramatic increase in minority- and female-owned companies
continues to transform the business world while setting standards
for those who follow. Thriving as a Minority-Owned Business in
Corporate America offers you a comprehensive guide to current
practical knowledge of minority business development, from grants
and loans to market building. This book demonstrates how you can
use specific laws, institutions, and new technologies to set up and
steer your business to success. Expert coverage includes both
established and underused resources at the federal, state, and
local levels dedicated to minority business expansion. You will
learn how to tap resources made available by government agencies
like the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) and programs
such as the Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI).
Non-governmental funding sources (e.g., banks, credit unions,
venture capital) are also examined in depth, with sound advice on
approaching each. The author explores the critical role of social
media in leveling the playing field, spotlighting minority/female
business-related sites and strategies for leveraging your online
presence. And he provides real-world guidance on business
certifications, tax breaks, credit issues, and more. Whether you're
in start-up or expansion mode, after reading this book, you will
have the know-how needed to seize the opportunity and succeed with
your enterprise. What You Will Learn Discover unused and
unrecognized resources at the federal, state, and local level set
up specifically for minority business See the difference between
banks, thrifts, credit unions, angel investors, and venture
capital, and how to approach each Use social media in support of
minority business development goals Examine social media sites and
trends: current and relevant minority business related social media
sites and trends Who This Book is ForAnyone: Asian, Hispanic,
women, Black or White who wants authentic, impactful information on
creating or supporting minority-owned businesses.
'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin
of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green
whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose
that drifted around lesser places . . . ' Meet Bobby, Jonathan and
Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to
make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world
of the Seventies and Eighties. And as our threesome form a new kind
of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so
much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a
home, in which to live.
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