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Land's End by Michael Cunningham
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Land's End

A Walk in Provincetown

Picador · 2012-05-22

Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Travel / Special Interest / Literary
  • Good for readers interested in biographies
  • Strong fit for readers who prefer grounded, real-world context.

What You Get

  • Themes: Travel, Biography, Biographies.
  • Reading lane: Special Interest and United States.
  • Publisher: Picador.

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What we read

  • Travel / Special Interest / Literary

    74%
  • Travel / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

    74%
  • History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

    74%

About This Book

"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." - The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions: slender, eloquent, enriching, and fun. . . . A casually lovely ode to Provincetown." - The Minneapolis Star Tribune "Cunningham rambles through Provincetown, gracefully exploring the unusual geography,...

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"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." - The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions: slender, eloquent, enriching, and fun. . . . A casually lovely ode to Provincetown." - The Minneapolis Star Tribune "Cunningham rambles through Provincetown, gracefully exploring the unusual geography, contrasting seasons, long history, and rich stew of gay and straight, Yankee and Portuguese, old-timer and 'washashore' that flavors Cape Cod's outermost town. . . . Chock-full of luminous descriptions . . . . He's hip to its studied theatricality, ever-encroaching gentrification and physical fragility, and he can joke about its foibles and mourn its losses with equal aplomb." - Chicago Tribune "A homage to the 'city of sand'. . . Filled with finely crafted sentences and poetic images that capture with equal clarity the mundanities of the A&P and Provincetown's magical shadows and light . . . Highly evocative and honest. It takes you there." - The Boston Globe

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