The Hours
 

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old... (read more)

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tapbirds
  • Rated 4 stars

The Hours by author Michael Cunningham, is a 3-segmented novel. Each segment follows the lives of women in different times, and in different circumstances. The first, most current, Clarrisa Vaughn is a friend with an award-winning writer struggling with AIDS. The second, Laura Brown is a mother and wife in 1950’s Los Angeles. The third features Virginia Woolf struggling with her psychological “demons” (the story begins with the haunting scene of Woolf’s suicide). All three stories are...

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Tinky
  • Rated 2 stars

Somehow, I miss what all the fuss was about. It blandly reads like a novelization of the movie it was to inspire (and a very good movie it was, too). Maybe someday I'll give it another try and mine eyes will be opened.

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  • paritch

    paritch said:

    it was great.i saw the movie first.but the book helped me more

    posted Friday, January 4 2008
  • CiCi

    cici said:

    Truly a work of art. Some of the most beautiful writing of any time. I loved this book. Now to read Mrs. Dalloway again.

    posted Friday, June 22 2007
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