Michael Cunningham: 39 books

Uma maçã envenenada e uma pata de macaco com poder para mudar o destino, uma rapariga cujo cabelo extraordinariamente comprido é fonte de malefícios, um homem com um braço humano e uma asa de cisne, uma casa na floresta, construída com gomas e pão de gengibre, cobertura de baunilha e caramelo....

Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...

Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...

Novo livro do premiado autor de As Horas Barrett Meeks, que acabou de perder mais um amor, está à deriva. Ao atravessar o Central Park, ele se vê repentinamente inspirado a erguer os olhos para o céu, onde uma luz pálida e translúcida parece encará-lo de uma forma nitidamente divina. Ao mesmo...

This novel follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it is touched by ambition, love, violence, and the transforming effects of time.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London...

In Safe Hands is a compilation of stories about the day-to-day activities experienced by inspectors in the United States Customs Service. Whether it be at Logan Airport in Boston, the land border in Houlton, Maine, or one hundred miles at sea on a Coast Guard cutter, these men and women are tirelessly...

This book offers a critical consideration of the apology in politics. It provides a detailed overview of all aspects of the phenomenon of the apology made by states, which has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. It is the product of a decade’s research and reflection on the subject and...

C'est à New York, en cette fin de XXè siècle. C'est à Londres, en 1923. C'est à Los Angeles, en 1949. Clarissa est éditrice, Virginia, écrivain, Laura, mère au foyer. Trois femmes, trois histoires reliées par un subtil jeu de correspondances, dont l'émouvante cohésion ne sera révélée...

De Cleveland à New York, des rêves ambitieux et candides de l'adolescence à la quête désemparée d'un refuge d'où la vie tiendrait tête aux turbulences de notre monde déboussolé, l'histoire de Jonathan et de Bobby, deux amis d'enfance, explore la fragilité émotionnelle d'une époque qui...

La vie de Constantin Stassos, l'immigrant grec devenu promoteur immobilier dans le New Jersey, et de la belle Mary, épousée durant la grande utopie des années cinquante, semble incarner le Rêve américain. Très tôt, pourtant, vient le désenchantement : Mary accepte mal l'étroitesse de son...

This is the powerful story of a man of God who learned to overcome hurts, fear, grief, and discouragement. Michael Cunningham's story is a moving and uplifting book that shows how he was able to find freedom from captivity to a variety of adverse circumstances that occurred throughout his life.

Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted. As a discipline, social policy has traditionally been blunted by a focus on the nation state; however, in this age of globalisation the most pressing...

In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right,...