num_pages: 342
description: Michael Cunningham’s celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
language: English
title: A Home at the End of the World
titlecomplete: A Home at the End of the World
genres: American, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Gay, Queer, Literature, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 19858
places: New York City, New York, New York (State)
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Fiction
publisher: Picador