Michael Cunningham

Majkl Kanningem, avtor bestsellerov "Dom na kraju sveta", "Plot i krov" i "Chasy" - odin iz samykh znamenitykh prozaikov sovremennoj Ameriki. Imennoza "Chasy" - luchshij amerikanskij roman 1998 goda - avtor udostoen Pulittserovskoj premii, a odnoimennyj film, snjatyj britanskim kinorezhisserom Stivenom Doldri, poluchil premiju "Oskar" i oboshel kinoekrany vsego mira.Sledujuschij ego roman "Izbrannye dni" - povestvovanie udivitelnoj sily. Originalnyj i smelyj pisatel, Kanningem soedinjaet v knige tri raznozhanrovye chasti: misticheskuju istoriju iz epokhi promyshlennoj revoljutsii, triller o sovremennom detskom terrorizme i novellu o postapokalipticheskom buduschem, kotorye svjazany mestom dejstvija (Nju-Jork), neizmennoj gruppoj personazhej (muzhchina, zhenschina, malchik) i prorocheskoj figuroj amerikanskogo poeta Uolta Uitmena.

"Kraj zemli" - edinstvennaja dokumentalnaja kniga amerikanskogo pisatelja Majkla Kanningema. Ona posvjaschena Provinstaunu, gorodu na poluostrove Kejp-Kod, stavshemu v seredine XX veka bogemnym i turisticheskim tsentrom Vostochnogo poberezhja. Sam Kanningem popal na Kejp-Kod v vosmidesjatykh i s tekh por chasto vozvraschaetsja tuda. V svoej knige on puteshestvuet po ljubimym mestam, ot pljazhej, bolot i djun do apteki i restorana, rasskazyvaet ob obychnykh zhiteljakh Provinstauna i o znamenitostjakh, zhivshikh tam.Perevodchik: Kumysh SergejRedaktor: Prorokova Vera

'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times'He's almost certainly not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave Gorman'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so much. Glorious." Dom Joly'Probably the funniest thing I've read this year' Rufus HoundGet ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friendsAnd one very annoyed worldBased on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year. Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people.The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him and the results are utterly hilarious.Warning: you'll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again.'Finally, someone has worked out a good use for social media and it's brilliantly, painfully funny' Iain Morris, Co-creator of The Inbetweeners'Michael is the funniest human on the internet, bar none. Read his book, you cowards' James Felton, author of 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

Back when Thomas Cheshire was an aspiring baseball player, he met Bob Edwards, a fire captain who taught him the ropes of minor league baseball. Later Captain Edwards took Thomas under his wing again, mentoring Thomas toward a life as a firefighter. Injury and tragedy befall Thomas and he soon finds himself up to his neck in dead bodies and he is thrust into a world of drug traffickers. The second half of the book follows the author as he navigated his career as a firefighter, paramedic and a fire investigator. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic but never dull.

**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 DallowayThree 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 CunninghamDirected by Judith Kampfner and Polly Thomas Produced by Judith KampfnerA Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4Duration: 2 hours approx.

In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'.

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, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Slate, and BustleA poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread. 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. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the standards and set up regional training programs for smaller jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples, checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing. CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene—and the personnel charged with tending to the evidence—should be managed.

Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the standards and set up regional training programs for smaller jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples, checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing. CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene—and the personnel charged with tending to the evidence—should be managed.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Hours"Michael Cunningham's best novel in more than a decade."-Megan O'Grady, VogueIt'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. At the same time, in Brooklyn, Barrett's older brother, Tyler, is struggling to make his way as a musician-and to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. While Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers, and Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon. Michael Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence, demonstrating a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul. Beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, The Snow Queen proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

'Luminously written ... page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times

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 thus provides a complete coverage of all the key debates and features.States of apology evaluates the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics, the political and cultural factors behind its emergence and the philosophical problems generated by the state apologising and in particular the question of responsibility across generations. The book also considers the dynamics of domestic apologies and the relationship of the apology to the field of international relations. It is written in a clear and jargon-free style which will make it accessible to both students and non-students alike.

Upea romaani täydellisen lauseen mestarilta. Nelikymppinen Peter Harris omistaa taidegallerian New Yorkissa ja näkee itsensä kauneuden palvelijana. Hänen vaimonsa Rebecca on arvostettu kulttuurilehden päätoimittaja, ja pariskunta elää kauneuden ympäröimänä New Yorkin taidepiireissä. Harrisien turvallinen, huolellisesti rakennettu elämä järkkyy, kun Rebeccan pikkuveli, hemmoteltu 23-vuotias Mizzy, muuttaa heille väliaikaisesti asumaan. Kaunis ja huoleton Mizzy on hukassa omassa elämässään, joka näyttää kuluvan joutenoloon ja huumeisiin. Yllättäen Peterin ja Mizzyn välille syntyy jotain, joka saa Peterin kyseenalaistamaan oman elämänsä. Cunninghamin upea romaani on tutkielma elämän tarkoitusta etsivästä miehestä. Se on ylistyslaulu öiselle New Yorkille, elämän pienille sattumuksille ja kauneudelle.

If you're an art student who plans to focus your career in the direction of fantasy illustration, this brand-new edition of a popular and practical training course offers you valuable instruction from experts in the field. This second edition has been expanded with additional pages that feature many more how-to, step-by-step color illustrations. Anatomy for Fantasy Artists trains you in creating professional quality illustration for comic book art, graphic novels, fantasy posters, sci-fi book covers and illustrations, and computer games. Instruction starts with the basics of human anatomical drawing and musculature, and then follows with a review of the principles of perspective and composition. Subsequent sections instruct on ways to distort, develop, and transform the human figure, giving it features that range from monstrous or magical to super-agile or larger than life. Detailed artist's references and step-by-step instructions show how to build bodies that truly stretch the imagination--mighty alien warriors, kick-boxing cyber-punks, and mega-muscled superheroes, to name just a few. You also learn how to render characters in many different dynamic action poses, such as flying, spinning, punching, and jumping, as well as how to express each character's emotions through facial expressions. Approximately 400 color illustrations.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELGER VINNER AV PEN/FAULKNER AWARD Timene er historien om tre kvinner: Clarissa Vaughan som en New York-morgen starter planleggingen av en fest til ære for sin kjære venn, Laura Brown, som i en forstad til Los Angeles på 1950-tallet føler at husmoridyllen begynner å kvele henne, og Virginia Wolf som sammen med sin mann i London er i ferd med å komme til hektene og starter å skrive den romanen hun siden skal bli kjent for, Mrs Dalloway. De tre kvinnenes liv og historier veves elegant sammen til et nett av levd liv og følelser, og boken demonstrerer Cunnighams empati for sine hovedpersoner og hans ekstraordinære evne til å skape dyp gjenklang hos leseren. Romanen ble kåret til årets beste roman av blant annet New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune og Publishers Weekly da den utkom, og ble deretter en enorm suksess solgt til en lang rekke land. Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore og Nicole Kidman stod for den filmatiske tolkningen av boken i den bejublede filmen The Hours.

"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." -The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions: slender, eloquent, enriching, and fun. . . . A casually lovely ode to Provincetown." -The Minneapolis Star Tribune"Cunningham rambles through Provincetown, gracefully exploring the unusual geography, contrasting seasons, long history, and rich stew of gay and straight, Yankee and Portuguese, old-timer and 'washashore' that flavors Cape Cod's outermost town. . . . Chock-full of luminous descriptions . . . . He's hip to its studied theatricality, ever-encroaching gentrification and physical fragility, and he can joke about its foibles and mourn its losses with equal aplomb." -Chicago Tribune"A homage to the 'city of sand'. . . Filled with finely crafted sentences and poetic images that capture with equal clarity the mundanities of the A&P and Provincetown's magical shadows and light . . . Highly evocative and honest. It takes you there." -The Boston Globe

'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.

From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of â??The Hoursâ??, comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity.

I sin succéroman Timmarna berättar Michael Cunningham om en dag i tre olika kvinnors liv.Den första av dem är författarinnan Virginia Woolf, som en morgon 1923 hittar inledningsmeningen till sin nya roman: Mrs Dalloway sade att hon skulle köpa blommorna själv. Hon skriver intensivt i ett par timmar innan hon lägger ifrån sig pennan. Huvudvärken ligger hela tiden på lur, den som kan växa tills allt blir ett bländande sken och hon börjar höra röster.Den andra kvinnan är förlagsredaktören Clarissa Vaughan, som en morgon 1998 i New York går ut för att köpa blommor till festen som hon på kvällen ska ha för sin nära vän Richard, en känd poet som nu är döende i aids, för att fira att denne fått ett prestigefyllt litterärt pris. Liksom mrs Dalloway i Woolfs roman hinner Clarissa under dagens lopp reflektera mycket över sitt liv och de människor som betytt något för henne, inte minst Richard.Den tredje kvinnan är hemmafrun Laura Brown, som en morgon 1949 i en av Los Angeles förorter börjar läsa Mrs Dalloway. Hon blir så gripen av romanen att hon försummar att uppvakta sin man, som fyller år. Laura bestämmer sig för att som gottgöra saken genom att baka en födelsedagstårta tillsammans med sin lille son Richie. Men medan de gör det börjar hon alltmer ifrågasätta sitt äktenskap och sin tillvaro.Timmarna är en alltigenom mästerlig roman som lyckas binda ihop tre kvinnoöden så att de speglar och griper in i varandra på högst oväntade vis. Boken lyckas visa att liv och litteratur hänger samman och att en enda dag i en människas liv kan betyda allt.För Timmarna belönades Cunningham med både 1999 års skönlitterära Pulitzerpris och PEN/Faulkner Award. Romanen har också blivit en hyllad film med Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep och Julianne Moore i huvudrollerna.I samband med återutgivningen av Timmarna publicerar Lind & Co Cunninghams senaste roman: När natten faller.MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM (f. 1952) är författare till en rad kritikerhyllade och prisbelönta romaner. Han bor i New York och anses idag vara en av Amerikas främsta författare.