UnsayableAn intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribablefrom the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist 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,