The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, tells three simultaneous stories. One is about Virginia Woolf while she is writing the novel in the mid-1920s. In another, a woman reading MRS. DALLOWAY in 1949 fights off despair. In the third, a woman named Clarissa (whose nickname is "Mrs. Dalloway") prepares a party for a friend in the late 1990s. The main action of each part of the novel takes place over the course of one day--as MRS. DALLOWAY does. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

Editions of The Hours

ISBN 9780312243029	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher St Martins Pr	Date 2000	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9781593973483	Binding/Format Digital	Publisher Audio Renaissance	Date	Price None Available
ISBN 9780736657068	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Books on Tape	Date 2002	Price $29.92	Good
ISBN 9780736645201	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Books on Tape	Date 1999	Price $3.23	Used - Good
ISBN 9780783887142	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 2000	Price None Available
ISBN 9780613255752	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2000	Price None Available
ISBN 9781559279314	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Macmillan Audio	Date 2003	Price $41.62	New
ISBN 9780783887159	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1999	Price $2.99	Used - Acceptable
ISBN 9780374172893	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Very Good+

Publisher Notes

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.