By Nightfall

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• Book Review: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham Share

  Michael Cunningham has a unique approach to writing novels. He selects a classic work of literature and constructs a contemporary homage to it. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours mirrored the stream-of-consciousness technique used by Virginia ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Fri, 6 May 2011

• By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham: review

  Beauty manifests itself in this novel (from the author of The Hours) in many ways: in the poise and elegance of Michael Cunningham’s prose, and in his perceptions of human behaviour. It does so too in the art that its middle-aged protagonist, Peter H ... (read full critics)

  telegraph.co.uk published on Wed, 2 Feb 2011

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  Very poor novel, the least interesting of its author

  I was quite bored most of the time with this novel... a gay author trying to be mainstream ... and failing. He was so good with his three first novels, where has all that talent gone? Only at the end, maybe the las thirty or twenty pages, the novel rises above boredom and gets somewhere interesting. ... (continue)

  I was quite bored most of the time with this novel... a gay author trying to be mainstream ... and failing. He was so good with his three first novels, where has all that talent gone? Only at the end, maybe the las thirty or twenty pages, the novel rises above boredom and gets somewhere interesting... but by that time I just wanted to finish it and move on. Very disappointing indeed.

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  Quite a good reading...

  The kind of book I love. Easy going, good novel....but plenty of ways to make you think about your life..... how it is, how it should be, how it could be.....

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• English Books
• Others 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0007307772
• ISBN-13: 9780007307777
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Pub date: Aug 01, 2011
• Also available as: eBook

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