What Is It About Provincetown?
I just finished Michael Cunningham's Land's End. Subtitled "A Walk in Provincetown," it's a brief personal travelogue describing twenty years of traveling in one town by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours. From its first sentence ("There is a short interval on clear evenings in Provincetown, after the sun has set, when the sky is deep blue but the hulls of the boats in the harbor retain a last vestige of light that is visible nowhere else."), he captures the sense of peace, beauty, and underlying melancholy, the sense of abandon, safety, and darkness that has captivated me since I was a child. I found it kind of eerie to read because it says so many of the things that I would say about Provincetown, though it says them better than I could because he's a better writer and he has spent more time there.
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