- Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Parent and child, Male friendship
Presents two decades of American life - Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s; Jonathan's mother Alice; and, unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men form a family.
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Character
Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Cunningham
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Penguin Books, Limited, Picador
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Russian, English, Polish, French
- ISBN
- 9781593975418
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First sentence
“ONCE our father bought a convertible.”
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