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Land's End

A Walk in Provincetown

Land's End( )
Author: Cunningham, Michael
Series title:Crown Journeys Ser.
ISBN:978-0-609-60907-1
Publication Date:Dec 2002
Publisher:The Crown Publishing Group
Imprint:Three Rivers Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $26.99
Book Description:

In this celebration of one of Americas oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize&–winningThe 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...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Walking
Travel / United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.183 x 20.015 x 1.905 cm
Book Weight:0.286 Kilograms
Author Biography
Cunningham, Michael (Author)
Michael Cunningham was born November 6, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Pasadena, California. He received a B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa.

Cunningham is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and a Whiting Writers' Award in 1995. In 1999, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, The Hours, which was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.

Cunningham taught at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and in the creative writing M.F.A. program at Brooklyn College. He is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

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