Michael Cunningham, best-selling author of The End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Clock, is one of America's most celebrated prose writers. It was for "The Hours - the best American novel of 1998" that the author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the film of the same name, shot by British film director Stephen Daldry, won the Oscar and went around the movie screens around the world.His next novel, "Selected Days - a story of amazing power. An original and daring writer, Cunningham combines three parts of different genres in the book: a mystical story from the era of the industrial revolution, a thriller about modern children's terrorism and a novel about a post-apocalyptic future, which are connected by the setting (New York), an unchanged group of characters (a man, a woman, a boy ) and the prophetic figure of the American poet Walt Whitman.