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Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at yale university. His second, a home at the end of the world, published in 1991, was widely acclaimed and was shortlisted for the irish timesaer lingus international fiction prize. Flesh and blood, a 1951 british film with george cole. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are virginia woolf, clarissa vaughan. In the hours, michael cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of virginia woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope. The first edition of the novel was published in 1990, and was written by michael cunningham. Michael cunningham flesh and blood is michael cunningham s third novel.
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