Full name: By Nightfall: A Novel

Author: Michael Cunningham Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374299088 0374299080

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.< Similar books: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Picture This by Joseph Heller The Dangerous Husband by Jane Shapiro Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann Seek My Face by John Updike The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Manhattan Loverboy by Arthur Nersesian The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt The Golden House by Salman Rushdie An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann