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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0374266328
EAN: 9780374266325
Kindle: B00GL442SU
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Fiction
A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning
author of The Hours Michael Cunningham’s luminous novel begins with a vision.
It’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet
again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired
to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent
light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way.
Barrett doesn’t believe in visions—or in God—but he can’t
deny what he’s seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick
neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett’s older brother, a
struggling musician, is trying—and failing—to write a
wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill.
Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely
a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to
religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs
can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face
mortality with as much courage as she can summon. Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels
down a different path in his search for transcendence. In
subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for
his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of
what lies at the core of the human soul. The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and
tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great
novelists of his generation.
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