Michael Cunningham Ordre des livres (chronologique)

As the world evolves, a family navigates the complexities of growing up, aging, love, loss, and resilience. In a Brooklyn brownstone, Dan and Isabel's seemingly perfect life begins to unravel. Both harbor feelings for Isabel's younger brother, Robbie, a free spirit living in the attic. As Robbie grapples with a recent breakup and prepares to leave home, tensions rise, threatening the family's cohesion. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Nathan seeks independence, while five-year-old Violet remains blissfully unaware of her parents' growing divide. As the pandemic lockdown begins, the brownstone transforms into a confining space. Violet becomes fixated on safety, while Nathan rebels against her rules. Isabel and Dan communicate through thinly veiled frustrations, and Robbie finds himself isolated in a mountain cabin in Iceland, wrestling with his thoughts and a curated online persona. As the family emerges from the crisis, they confront a changed reality, reflecting on their experiences, losses, and the path forward. This poignant narrative, crafted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, delves into the intricacies of love, loss, and the challenges of family life—exploring how to coexist while navigating personal struggles.

The story revolves around the special bond between Tehya and her father as they spend quality time together. Their adventures highlight the joy of their relationship, showcasing moments of fun, learning, and connection. Through their interactions, the narrative emphasizes the importance of family and the simple pleasures of life.

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.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

In November 2004, Barrett Meeks, feeling the weight of lost love, wanders through Central Park and is struck by a pale, translucent light that seems to watch over him. Despite his skepticism about visions and faith, he cannot shake the experience. Meanwhile, his older brother Tyler, a struggling musician in Bushwick, grapples with writing a wedding song for his seriously ill fiancée, Beth. Tyler aspires to create a piece that transcends mere sentimentality, aiming for a lasting expression of love. As Barrett becomes increasingly drawn to religious contemplation, Tyler believes that drugs may unlock his creative potential. Beth, facing her mortality, strives to confront her situation with courage. The narrative follows the divergent journeys of the Meeks brothers as they each seek transcendence in their own ways. Through subtle and lucid prose, the author captures the complexities of his characters, showcasing a deep empathy and a profound understanding of the human soul. The novel is a beautiful and heartbreaking exploration of love, loss, and the search for meaning.

Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in thefamily as Mizzy, “the mistake”), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed. Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.<

La Mort à Venise est le récit de la passion folle et fatale qui saisit un écrivain d'âge mûr à l'apparition d'un gracieux adolescent d'une extraordinaire beauté.Dans Tristan, le dilemme qui s'offre à l'héroïne est de tenter de vivre en étouffant ses dons d'artiste ou " mourir de musique ". La fin de Lobgott Piepsam dans le Chemin du cimetière prouve que la vie est dure aux faibles, mais que la mort vaut mieux que la débâcle d'une constante lâcheté.C'est peut-être dans ses nouvelles que Thomas Mann, le plus célèbre écrivain allemand de ce siècle, a mis le meilleur de sa verve ironique et de sa sensibilité musicale, de son émotion discrète et dominée, qui se drape volontiers d'un sarcasme.

Après l'immense succès des Heures , un roman envoûtant. Grâce de l'écriture, fulgurance des mots et incroyable maîtrise narrative, Michael Cunningham nous revient avec une oeuvre dense et intensément poétique. Trois époques. Trois histoires reliées par une série d'indices. Un monde hanté par l'ombre de Walt Whitman. Un lieu : Manhattan.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

Provincetown, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. Written by the author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, this work brings us Provincetown, one of the extraordinary towns in the US, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.

C'est à New York, à la fin du XXe siècle. C'est à Londres, en 1923. C'est à Los Angeles, en 1949. Clarissa est éditrice, Virginia, écrivain, Laura, mère au foyer. Trois femmes, trois histoires reliées par un subtil jeu de correspondances, dont l'émouvante cohésion ne sera révélée que dans les dernières pages...

Constantin Stassos, un immigrant grec, n'a pas grand-chose en commun avec Mary, une belle Américaine d'origine italienne épousée durant la grande utopie des années cinquante. Promoteur immobilier installé à Newark, dans le New jersey, il va bâtir sa réussite sur le dos de plus infortunés que lui et se révéler un homme violent. Mary est une femme frustrée, qui accepte mal l'étroitesse du quotidien. Trois enfants naissent : Susan, l'aînée, a avec son père une relation qui frôle l'inceste. Billy, un garçon émotif, vulnérable, est incompris de son père, particulièrement lorsque celui-ci découvre son homosexualité. Zoé, la cadette, ira vivre à Manhattan où elle s'adonne à la drogue puis, enceinte d'un amant de passage, un Noir, est adoptée par un travesti, Cassandra, qui va l'aider à élever son fils. Sous la façade respectable, le scandale est absolu.

Jonathan et Bobby ont grandi ensemble au rythme des musiques seventies et dans les fumées de marijuana. Approchant de la trentaine, ils se retrouvent à New York où ils essaient en compagnie de Claire, tout à la fois l'amie, l'amante et la mère, d'inventer la famille des années 1980 écartelée entre la fin du rêve hippie, le solde de la révolution sexuelle et les débuts tragiques de l'épidémie du sida. Au gré de leurs errances, La Maison du bout du monde dépeint les espoirs et les angoisses de toute une génération.