In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair... Zobraziť viac
From the author of the bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Hours, a beautiful novel about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the... Zobraziť viac
Psychologický román se soustřeďuje na jeden den tří postav a kniha je příběhem o umírání a bezmoci, ale také o ohleduplnosti a lásce. Za knihu autor získal roku 1999 Pulitzerovu cenu a dílo bylo rovněž úspěšně zfilmováno. Zobraziť viac
V první části triptychu sledujeme dospívání brooklynského chlapce: po tragické smrti svého bratra v tiskařském stroji vnímá nejen New York průmyslové revoluce, špíny a otrocké rasoviny, ale také jeho převtělení do Catherine, kterou si měl vzít... Zobraziť viac
Cyklus tří novel nabízí trojí pohled na proměny i konstanty autorova domovského New Yorku. Poprvé ho Cunningham zastihuje v industriálním příšeří konce 19. století, kdy v epoše vrcholící průmyslové revoluce nastupuje chlapec Lucas k továrnímu stroji... Zobraziť viac
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on... Zobraziť viac
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair... Zobraziť viac
Ein Tag im Leben dreier Frauen: Clarissa Vaughan spaziert an einem strahlenden Junimorgen durch die Straßen von New York. Es ist das pulsierende New York der späten neunziger Jahre. Clarissa will Blumen für eine Party besorgen, die sie an diesem Abend... Zobraziť viac
Two decades of American life told through four people: Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s; Jonathan's mother Alice; and unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men form a family... Zobraziť viac
Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham's elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader... Zobraziť viac
Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light in the sky that regards him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn’t believe in visions – or in God – but he can’t deny what he’s seen. In nearby Brooklyn, Tyler, ... Zobraziť viac
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and ... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, THE HOURS is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Now a major motion picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (BILLY ELLIOT) and starring Nicole Kidman, ... Zobraziť viac
