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Book Synopsis''It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth''s calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn''t open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ''
Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the Seventies and Eighties.
And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.
Trade ReviewA writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace * The New York Times Book Review *
Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel -- David Leavitt
As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise * Mail on Sunday *
Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art * The Los Angeles Times *
Extremely intelligent, moving and accomplished. Cunningham has mastered the art of evoking the richness of domestic lives * Sunday Times *
