Flesh and Blood

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by Michael Cunningham

Simon & Schuster Trade

Due/Published April 1996, 466 pages, paper

ISBN 0684874318

Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World introduced him
as one of the most passionate of contemporary writers. In Flesh and Blood,
he has produced a work of broad sweep, powerful narrative drive, and intense
feeling.

Flesh and Blood follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it
is transformed by ambition, love, violence, and accumulating history. Constantine
Stassos, a Greek immigrant, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and
they have three children, each fated to a complex life. Susan is oppressed by her
beauty and her father's affections; Billy is brilliant, and gay; Zoe is a wild,
heedless visionary. As the years pass, their lives unfold in ways that compel