A Home at the End of the World

Picador (Jul 01, 2004)

9780312424084

| Paperback

352 pages | 5.5 x 0.9 inch | English

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Dewey 813.54

Subject

Gay Men
Male Friendship
New York (State)
Parent And Child
Triangles (Interpersonal Relations)

Plot

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.