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Here, Michael Cunningham brings his storytelling prowess to the fore. I have to admit I initially assumed he had nicked the idea of this book from Cloud Atlas. But research shows Cloud Atlas was only published a year earlier so given how much time a publishing house needs to package and prepare mark Leggi tutto

I would guess David Mitchell provided a hefty dose of inspiration for this novel in three parts and different historical settings. All three narratives are set in an alternate New York. In the Hours Cunningham used Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as the linking common dominator; here he uses Walt Whit Leggi tutto

I don’t know what it is about this novel, but I'm convinced there is some kind of magic weaved into the pages. I found it to be a captivating read, extremely well written, and certainly thought provoking. 'Specimen Days' is made up of three different novellas set in New York City that are separated Leggi tutto

Cunningham is one of the great underratted writers. He’s had some recognition, true. But he deserves much more. Each of the connected novellas here is like a little hand grenade going off in the mind. I’ve been reading with deliberate slowness. The language is so sonorous and vivid—despite the genre Leggi tutto

This was so different from the other Cunningham books I’ve read (The Hours; Flesh and Blood; A Home at the End of the World) that it made me question the whole idea of identity in writers and artists. At a time when I was turning to the familiar, this both did and did not disappoint: there were no g Leggi tutto

I can think about quite a few reasons why Michael Cunningham would decide to write a novel (?) like this one; Wanting to leave his comfort zone while proving that he could actually write in different genres is certainly a reason big enough for him to have done so and to go all experimental. Because, Leggi tutto

I knew little of Michael Cunningham’s work (I just knew that he wrote The Hours which was an Academy Award-winning film my parents loved) so I had no fixed expectations. I gave myself four days to finish this book but managed to do so in three days. That’s how captivating it was. Cunningham’s experi Leggi tutto