Author: Michael Cunningham
Translator: Dong-seob Cho
Publisher: Maum Sanchaek
228 pages | 225*135mm
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About This Book
In this celebration of one of America’s oldest towns (incorporated in
1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer
Prize–winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most
idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on
the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.
Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote, and heartbreakingly
beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as
it has existed. “It is the only small town I know of where those who
live unconventionally seem to outnumber those who live within the
prescribed bounds of home and licensed marriage, respectable job, and
biological children,” says Cunningham. “It is one of the places in the
world you can disappear into. It is the Morocco of North America, the
New Orleans of the north.”
He first came to the place more than twenty years ago, falling in love
with the haunted beauty of its seascape and the rambunctious charm of
its denizens. Although Provincetown is primarily known as a summer mecca
of stunning beaches, quirky shops, and wild nightlife, as well as a
popular destination for gay men and lesbians, it is also a place of deep
and enduring history, artistic and otherwise. Few towns have attracted
such an impressive array of artists and writers—from Tennessee Williams
to Eugene O’Neill, Mark Rothko to Robert Motherwell—who, like
Cunningham, were attracted to this finger of land because it was . . .
different, nonjudgmental, the perfect place to escape to; to be rescued,
healed, reborn, or simply to live
in peace. As we follow Cunningham on his various excursions through
Provincetown and its surrounding landscape, we are drawn into its
history, its mysteries, its peculiarities—places you won’t read about in
any conventional travel guide.
About the Author
Michael Cunningham is the author of Flesh and Blood, A Home at the End
of the World, and, most recently, The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize and soon to be a major film. He lives and works in New York City.
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