Unsayable: A Life in Writing Rebecca Lemke Carney’s friend and partner in

Carney’s friend and partner in crime

From the risky backstreets of sixteenth-century Paris to the unpredictable suburbs of mid-twentieth century New York

if he is brave enough

-"The Doll"

Unsayable: A Life in Writing Rebecca Lemke Carney’s friend and partner inAn intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours and Day Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see whats on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware. . . . Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable,