Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown
Picador · Print & ebook · May 22, 2012
"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . .
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- Who it’s for
- A graceful walk through Provincetown, attentive to its contrasts, character, and changing seasons.
- Themes
- Provincetown and sense of place, Changing local communities, Coastal landscape and fragility
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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. . . .
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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
A Town in Layers
A graceful walk through Provincetown, attentive to its contrasts, character, and changing seasons.
Come here for
- Luminous descriptions of a place with many sides
- A mix of affection, wit, and elegy
Expect
- A rambling, reflective sense of place
- Attention to Provincetown’s theatricality and fragility
Where it sits
| New England Travel | 52% |
|---|---|
| New England History | 47% |
| Travel Writing | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Travel Writing
- New England Travel
- Authors
- Michael Cunningham
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- May 22, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Provincetown and sense of place · Changing local communities · Coastal landscape and fragility
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs