''By Nightfall'' is the sixth
novel
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by
Pulitzer Prize
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winning American author
Michael Cunningham.
Plot
Peter and his wife, Rebecca—who edits a mid-level art magazine—have settled into a comfortable life in
Manhattan's art world, but their staid existence is disrupted by the arrival of Rebecca's much younger brother, Ethan—known as Mizzy, short for "The Mistake." Family golden child Mizzy is a recovering drug addict whose current whim has landed him in New York where he wants to pursue a career in "the arts." Watching Mizzy—whose resemblance to a younger Rebecca unnerves Peter—coast through life without responsibilities makes Peter question his own choices and wonder if it's more than Mizzy's freedom that he covets.
External links
New York Times Book Review
2010 American novels
Novels by Michael Cunningham
Novels set in Manhattan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux books
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