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An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hoursand Day.
Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.
At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware... Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable, kicking off a lifelong love affair with language-one that would, eventually, maybe inevitably, lead him to become a writer.
In Unsayable, Cunningham's memories spill forth, and with them, reflections on the craft of writing. He is fifteen, in a swimming pool at night, gazing at the first boy he ever fell in love with, who is lost in contemplative silence. He is a new college graduate, setting off for nowhere in a Dodge Dart, hoping to pull meaning (and a novel) from the expanse of America. He is on Cape Cod, regaling an elderly couple with invented tales of sexual escapades. He is in an art gallery, unwittingly having the first in a lifetime of conversations with the man he would marry. A thread ties each beautifully-wrought moment to the next: what is unspoken, what won't yield to language, what is embellished beyond recognition, what is still left to say.
Luminous, perceptive and powerful, Unsayableis an ode to literature, a meditation on craft and an intimate account of a life spent trying to put into words that which resists depiction. This, it turns out, is the lifeblood of the fiction writer: the impossibility of capturing the human experience, and the relentless desire to try.
An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hoursand Day.
Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side.
At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware... Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable, kicking off a lifelong love affair with language-one that would, eventually, maybe inevitably, lead him to become a writer.
In Unsayable, Cunningham's memories spill forth, and with them, reflections on the craft of writing. He is fifteen, in a swimming pool at night, gazing at the first boy he ever fell in love with, who is lost in contemplative silence. He is a new college graduate, setting off for nowhere in a Dodge Dart, hoping to pull meaning (and a novel) from the expanse of America. He is on Cape Cod, regaling an elderly couple with invented tales of sexual escapades. He is in an art gallery, unwittingly having the first in a lifetime of conversations with the man he would marry. A thread ties each beautifully-wrought moment to the next: what is unspoken, what won't yield to language, what is embellished beyond recognition, what is still left to say.
Luminous, perceptive and powerful, Unsayableis an ode to literature, a meditation on craft and an intimate account of a life spent trying to put into words that which resists depiction. This, it turns out, is the lifeblood of the fiction writer: the impossibility of capturing the human experience, and the relentless desire to try.
Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days, and non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown. The Hours was awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award and made into an internationally acclaimed, Oscar-winning film. His new novel, The Snow Queen, will be published in May of 2014. He lives in New York.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | 304 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780008836382 |
| ISBN-10: | 0008836388 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Cunningham, Michael |
| Hersteller: | Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 220 x 141 x 29 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Michael Cunningham |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.07.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,414 kg |
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