Audiobooks by Michael Cunningham

"UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN NPR, HARPER’S BAZAAR, LIT HUB Y KIRKUS REVIEWS, ENTRE OTROS El ganador de los premios Pulitzer y Pen Faulkner por Las horas vuelve a mostrar «su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundo en toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura». Colm Tóibín 5 de abril de 2019: la primavera despunta en Brooklyn y en el hogar de los Walker-Byrne la felicidad doméstica se resquebraja lentamente. Dan e Isabel han empezado a distanciarse, y el hecho de que Robbie, el encantador y frágil hermano de ella, al que todos adoran, deba abandonar la casa no es algo que ayude. Mientras este busca apartamento e intenta superar su último fracaso sentimental ocultándose tras un glamuroso avatar en las redes, Nathan, el hijo de diez años, da pasos inseguros hacia la adolescencia y su hermana Violet, de cinco, hace lo posible por aliviar el desencanto familiar. Dividida en tres actos que tienen lugar el mismo día de 2019, 2020 y 2021, Día es una asombrosa exploración del amor y la pérdida, las dificultades y las limitaciones de la vida familiar: una «narración desgarradoramente convincente sobre los tiempos que vivimos. [...] Una novela brillante de nuestro más brillante escritor». Colum McCann La crítica ha dicho... «Michael Cunningham muestra su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundo en toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura. [...] Refleja con agudeza y brillantez el Nueva York contemporáneo». Colm Tóibín «Uno comprende que Michael Cunningham es un escritor único y no apenas uno de tantos narradores ya en las dos primeras páginas de Día. […] Una 'love story' en el sentido más amplio-delicado a la vez que majestuoso, alegre y cortesano como minué y ominoso y solitario como marcha funeraria- del término». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural «El autor explora las oportunidades perdidas, la evaporación del deseo y la creciente irrelevancia que amenaza con asfixiarnos en el mundo contemporáneo. [...] Solo un autor de la sensibilidad de Cunningham es capaz de captar los matices de las tormentas que se desatan bajo la superficie de una aparente calma». Marta Rebón, El Mundo - La Lectura «Una historia de subrayada intimidad y naturalismo que disecciona con enorme percepción las grietas que abre el tiempo en las parejas». Javier Ors, La Razón «La trama fluye sin trabas -ajena a los marchamos de literatura experimental- para hablar de amor, de desafección, de ternura, de expectativas no cumplidas». Andrea Aguilar, El País «Cunningham es uno de nuestros grandes escritores estadounidenses, y aquí tenemos otra obra maestra. [...] Consigue lo que solo los grandes libros logran. Leerlo te transformará». Andrew Sean Greer «Otra exquisita novela de Cunningham». The Boston Globe «Un retrato absolutamente impactante de la humanidad. [...] Una obra maestra». Literary Hub «Uno de los mejores cronistas del amor». Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times «Junto con George Eliot, Cunningham pertenece a ese inusual grupo de novelistas que valoran el mundo y a quienes lo habitan, con respeto, compasión y una ternura aparentemente infinita, al tiempo que lo analizan sin contemplaciones». Tony Kushner «Un logro de excepcional belleza y equilibrio». Sarah Shun-lien Bynum"

Michael Cunningham (Author), Julieth Restrepo (Narrator)

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Day

"‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 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. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts – and his secret Instagram life – for company. April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality – with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on. From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely. ‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece … Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less"

Michael Cunningham (Author), Julianne Moore (Narrator)

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The Hours: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

"**Winner of the Gold Award for Best Drama in the New York Festivals Radio Awards 2018*** A BBC radio adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Michael Cunningham, inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Three separate women, living in different locations and eras, are linked by their passion for Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. As they each live through a Tuesday in June, their thoughts and experiences mirror each other and become interwoven. In Richmond in 1923, Virginia Woolf struggles to write a novel whose protagonist is Mrs Dalloway. In Los Angeles in 1949, Laura ignores her chores and small son to sit in bed reading Mrs Dalloway. In 1990s New York, Clarissa goes to buy flowers for a party, mirroring the start of the fictional Mrs Dalloway’s day. The party is in honour of her sick friend Richard, who long ago dubbed her Mrs Dalloway. As their stories intertwine, they converge to become one, weaving together themes of storytelling, domestic tension, friendship, love, loss, parental guilt, loneliness, bisexuality and the challenges of hosting social rituals. Adapted by Sony Award-winning dramatist Frances Byrnes, this affecting dramatisation stars Fenella Woolgar as Virginia Woolf, Teresa Gallagher as Laura and Rosamund Pike as Clarissa. 'I am so thrilled by the BBC's production of my novel, The Hours, and - believe me - a novelist does not thrill easily' - Michael Cunningham Cast Virginia/Kitty…Fenella Woolgar Laura...Gallagher Dan/Walter…Corey Johnson Richie…Jack Towbin Clarissa…Rosamund Pike Sally/Vanessa…Lia Williams Leonard/Louis…David Annen Nelly…Rachel Atkins Julia…Haley McGee Other voices by Sydney Beveridge and Josh Wakesberg Directed by Judith Kampfner and Polly Thomas Produced by Judith Kampfner A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4"

Michael Cunningham (Author), Fenella Woolgar, Full Cast, Rosamund Pike, Teresa Gallagher (Narrator)

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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

"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. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away – the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder – are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation."

Michael Cunningham (Author), Billy Hough, Lili Taylor (Narrator)

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The Snow Queen

"From the author of THE HOURS ‘Luminously written … page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist’ Sunday Times 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, Barrett’s older brother, is trying – and failing – to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation."

Michael Cunningham (Author), Claire Danes (Narrator)

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By Nightfall

"From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of ‘The Hours’, comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca’s much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his desires, his career – the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself. Making us think deeply about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives, By Nightfall is heartbreaking look at the way we live now."

Michael Cunningham (Author), Hugh Dancy (Narrator)

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Thalia Book Club: Specimen Days with author Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (Author), Isaiah Sheffer, Stacey D'erasmo (Narrator)

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