Michael Cunningham Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/michael-cunningham/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Michael Cunningham Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/michael-cunningham/ 32 32 38398750 Day by Michael Cunningham https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/day-by-michael-cunningham/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/day-by-michael-cunningham/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:10:59 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18018 A single day revisited for three years is the scaffolding that supports Michael Cunningham’s new novel, Day. The years are significant as they bracket the pandemic and lockdown, but this is not a COVID novel of suspense, terror, or disaster. Rather it’s snapshots of one family at three critical points in their lives as individuals […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/day-by-michael-cunningham/feed/ 4 18018 A Wild Swan: And Other Tales https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/a-wild-swan-and-other-tales/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/a-wild-swan-and-other-tales/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:44:58 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4713 When I think of Michael Cunningham many things about his writing come to mind: poetic, compelling… so many adjectives, and yet funny is not among them. Not that he is dark or his writing is without joy, but until I read his newest book, a series of short stories called A Wild Swan, he’d never made […]

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