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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Paperback | Pages: 230 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 122227 Users | 4873 Reviews

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Title	:	The Hours
Author	:	Michael Cunningham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 230 pages
Published	:	October 2002 by Picador USA (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy

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In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.

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Original Title:	The Hours
ISBN:	0312305060 (ISBN13: 9780312305062)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown
Setting:	London, England New York City, New York(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1999), Stonewall Book Award for Literature (1999), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1999), Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1998) Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2000), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)

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I think it takes courage to write about great literary figures and fictionalise bits of their lives, even when their lives have been well documented as is the case with Virginia Woolf. It also takes courage to interconnect the story and the characters with one of their most beloved masterpieces as Cunningham did.This story revolves around three women, in three different eras of the twentieth century, all in some way affected by the book Mrs Dalloway . Virginia Woolf has began to write the book

When you read a book like The Hours, you have to decide whether you want to see it as a work in its own right or as an illumination of something else. In this case, The Hours can either be seen as a standalone novel telling the parallel stories of three women in three time periods or as a complementary text to Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway. I struggled with The Hours. (Full disclosure: I struggled with it mostly because I heard Michael Cunningham speak at a screening, and he was an arrogant,



7.0/10 I'm having a difficult time rating this book because I loved the movie far too much. The movie had just the right amount of nuance and subtlety and inspiration, writ large, that acts as a revelation to the mind and heart. The book: not so much. For most of the novel, I felt like I was standing inside a huge echo chamber attendant with visual aspects that kept flashing at me, à la Clockwork Orange. Virginia Woolf was more than writ large -- she was the godhead from which everything flowed.

Tick, Mrs. Dalloway. Tock, Mrs. Woolf. Tick, Mrs. Brown. Tock, Mrs. Dallowayagain.Reviewing The Hours I find myself stuck somewhere in between tick and tock. Reading a novel, poem, play, screenplay, its often easy for me to lose touch with reality and completely absorb myself into the world of a story. I lose touch with myself. The sounds around me. The smells hovering under my nose. The world happening around me. Time elapses into nothingness.The Hours, however, made me fully aware of my

I hesitated between 3 and 4 stars for this book. It was beautifully written and has a somewhat unexpected (and yet unsurprising) ending. The references to Virginia Woolf are omnipresent as she also comes to life under Cunningham's pen along with Mrs Brown and "Mrs Dalloway". Yes, it did relight a flame in me to read the primary Woolf works (Orlando, Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Waves) and reminded me of the one I did read (A Room of One's Own), but still, something about it felt a little

We throw our parties; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--its as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if weve very fortunate, by time itself.Its about the hours right? Those few precious hours over