The Snow Queen

✍ Scribed by Cunningham, Michael

• Book ID: 108736438
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007557677

✦ Synopsis

Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision.

It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Although Barrett doesn't believe in visions -- or in god, for that matter -- he can't deny what he's seen.

At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Beth, who's engaged to Barrett's older brother ,Tyler, is dying of colon cancer. Beth, Tyler, and Barrett have cobbled together a more or less happy home. Tyler, a struggling musician with a drug problem, is trying and failing to write a wedding song for his wife-to-be -- something that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of eternal love.

Barrett, haunted by the light, turns...