You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. - Michael Cunningham

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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

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About Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

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