Flesh And Blood

by Michael Cunningham

Genres: Literary Fiction; Family Life; Sagas

Synopsis

Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World introduced him
as one of the most passionate of contemporary writers. In Flesh and Blood,
he has produced a work of broad sweep, powerful narrative drive, and intense
feeling.
Flesh and Blood follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it
is transformed by ambition, love, violence, and accumulating history. Constantine
Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and
they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her
beauty and her father's affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild,
heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel
them, and their parents, to meet ever greater challenges. Zoe raises a child in
New York with a transvestite friend; Billy searches for love and battles with his
father; Susan raises a son whose explosive emotions bring the story to its
climax.
Generous, masterfully crafted, alternately stirring and heartbreaking, Flesh
and Blood is a rich and memorable sounding of contemporary life.

Release date: April 17, 2007

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Print pages: 528