Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, who is recognized as "one of our very best writers" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. And love is most interesting when it has survived terrible tests.”ĭay is scheduled for publication on Jan. I’m deeply interested in love-a sense of happiness, of living the life that one has hoped to live. A critic for Kirkus called it “a likable and occasionally provocative set of variations on kid-lit themes.”Ĭunningham told the AP that his new novel is “a story about people dealing with something terrible, and it’s about survival, but more centrally it’s a story about love. His most recent book, the story collection A Wild Swan, was published in 2015. In 1998, he published The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award the novel was adapted into a 2002 Oscar-nominated film directed by Stephen Daldry and featuring a cast including Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore. When the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Robbie has moved to Iceland, and Dan and Isabel’s marriage has become fraught.Ĭunningham made his literary debut in 1984 with Golden States and followed that up six years later with A Home at the End of the World. The novel follows Dan and Isabel, a married Brooklyn couple who live with their two children and Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie.
The press describes the novel as “a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss and the struggles and limitations of family life-how to live together and apart.” Random House will publish Day, Cunningham’s first novel in nearly a decade, in 2024. A new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham is coming next year, the Associated Press reports.
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