By Nightfall

Author(s): Michael Cunningham

Gay & Bi Male Fiction

From the author of the bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Hours, a beautiful novel about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives.


Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca's much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his desires, his career - the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself.


Making us think deeply about the uses of beauty and the place of love in our lives, By Nightfall is heartbreaking look at the way we live now.


Product Information

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York. His novels include: A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours and Specimen Days. His work has been published in the New Yorker and Best American Short Stories 1989.

General Fields

  • : 9780007437849
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Fourth Estate Ltd
  • : 0.181
  • : December 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : 813.6
  • : 512
  • : Paperback
  • : Michael Cunningham