A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Hours. Michael Cunningham"s luminous novel begins with a vision. It"s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn"t believe in visions-or in God-but he can"t deny what he"s seen.