In each section of Michael Cunningham\'s bold new novel, his first since The Hours , we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman. "The Children\'s Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band th. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age.
In each section of Michael Cunningham\'s bold new novel, his first since The Hours , we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman