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Flesh and blood by cunningham, michael, 1952publication date 1995 topics domestic fiction publisher new york. Constantines three children are each touched, destroyed, or changed. The hours was a new york times bestseller, and was chosen as a. Michael cunningham is the author of flesh and blood, a home at the end of the world, and the hours, winner of the pulitzer prize and now a major film. Flesh and blood by michael cunningham ploughshares. His wife mary works hard to maintain the ideal or at least the illusion of perfection in her family. The epic saga of three generations of an american family follows the stassos family through periods of ambition, love, violence, and change, focusing on the turbulent lives of the stassos children. Michael cunningham as a writer emerged in 1984 with his first novel golden states, which dealt with the coming of age of a twelveyear old boy, and was rather neglected. The writing is fluent and poetic, unselfconscious, with passages of great beauty. Pdf a home at the end of the world book by michael. Moving through time with the speed of a spinning calendar in an old movie, cunningham takes the stassos family from 1935 to 2035, when jamal, the only surviving grandson, scatters the ashes of uncle. Michael cunningham flesh and blood is michael cunningham s third novel. Another novel came six years later, and its title was a home at the end of the world. A home at the end of the world 1990 flesh and blood 1995 farrar, straus and giroux 19 union square west, new york 3.
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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Flesh and blood by michael cunningham pdf free download ebook. Constantine stassos, a greek immigrant, marries mary cuccio, an italianamerican girl, and they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Constantine stassos, a greek immigrant, marries mary cuccio, an italianamerican girl.
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