num_pages: 238
description: Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattans SoHo nearing the apogee of committed careers in the artshe a dealer she an editor. With a spacious loft a college-age daughter in Boston and lively friends they are admirable enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason it seems to be happy. Then Rebeccas much younger look-alike brother Ethan (known in thefamily as Mizzy the mistake) shows up for a visit. A beautiful beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems Mizzy is wayward at loose ends looking for direction. And in his presence Peter finds himself questioning his artists their work his careerthe entire world he has so carefully constructed.Like his legendary Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Hours Michael Cunninghams masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.&lt;
language: English
title: By Nightfall
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux