And love is most interesting when it has survived terrible tests.”Ĭunningham’s previous novels, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, include “Specimen Days,” “By Nightfall” and “The Hours,” which won the Pulitzer for fiction in 1999 and was adapted into an Oscar winning movie of the same name. They're the smartest kids in their class, and they forge an intimacy when Connell picks his mother up from Marianne's house. Connell is popular in school, good at soccer, and nice Marianne is strange and friendless. I’m deeply interested in love - a sense of happiness, of living the life that one has hoped to live. It's 2011, after the financial crisis, which hovers around the edges of the book like a ghost. The author calls the new book “a story about people dealing with something terrible, and it’s about survival, but more centrally it’s a story about love. “But maybe it’s during hard times that the world needs novels more than ever.” “I’ve definitely had moments over the last 10 years when I thought, well, if the world is in this kind of shape, who needs a novel?” Cunningham said in a statement. The novel takes place on three separate days in April, one each in the years 2019-2021. Random House announced Monday that “Day” will be published in January. NEW YORK (AP) - The next novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, his first in a decade, is a family saga set in New York City before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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