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Day
- Narrated by: Julianne Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on.
April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.
April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts – and his secret Instagram life – for company.
April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality – with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.
From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.
Critic reviews
‘In Day, Michael Cunningham displays his great gift for creating memorable characters, for noticing the world in all its oddness and beauty, for writing about love and loss in tones that are both unsparing and tender. In this book, he also sharply and brilliantly captures contemporary New York.’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
‘Day is a novel about the collisions of love within our days. Michael Cunningham crafts a glorious sentence and at the same time he tells an achingly compelling story that speaks precisely to the times we live in. And it all flows so damn gorgeously that at times you just want to suspend the sacred day itself and hold it close, never let it, or the characters, go. A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers.’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
‘Cunningham, the perennial master of rendering the quotidian with a profound and deeply considered eye for human frailty, returns with a book that exemplifies the hallmarks of his style: lush, erudite, voracious in its seeking, and, like a true poet, remakes the world in his descriptions, freshened with care, compassion, and tinged with radiant heat of grief. What a quietly stunning achievement.’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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- Mr James Hodgson
- 13-03-24
The Reader
Julianne Moore reads well but from an angle. The sense is always of the glass less than half full. I found it diminished the experience of the book. Her reading is at worst a rather whinging interpretation which distanced me from the characters who sound endlessly tired and disappointed with their relatively privileged lives. When I actually read the book myself I enjoyed it much more. It became a different book.
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- the typist
- 28-01-24
Mesmerising writing as usual
A simply stunning piece of writing. The author is a master and elevates the mundane to something ecclesiastical. My only issue is he still seems hung up on gay men pining after straight men. It’s a theme of so much of his work however, so I guess it tracks.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-01-24
Brilliant
You need to read this book. Excellent narration to a simple, vast and beautiful book about the mundanity of life through the perspective of seven members of one family, spanning a day over three separate years. The voice of each character is so unique to each of them. I loved this book you need to read this.
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- mary
- 12-02-24
I wish this book could have gone on and on…
An honest if sad reminder of what we all went through during and after Covid. Everything changed. Everything became fragile and uncertain. This is the best book I have read for many a year.
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- Tracey J Dalton and Richard Welfare
- 26-01-24
Beautiful, quiet bppk
This is a beautiful, quiet book about family, growing up and loss. Narrated perfectly by Julianne Moore
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- T. L. Morgan
- 15-02-24
Absolutely NOTHING no story
So so boring didn’t warm to any of the characters. Loved the voice of Julie Anne but the was nothing. Lack of description Easter of money
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- Ms M.
- 06-04-24
Displeased
I’m not sure how/why I chose this book - though to be fair the synopsis offered an interesting content. In the event I gave up half way through. I found it painfully slow and dull and the narrator did little to inspire the text in a monotone style
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