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The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

ISBN: 0312305060
ISBN-13: 9780312305062
Format: Paperback

Summary

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.

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"[F]or all its artificiality, it turns into an extremely moving, original and memorable novel."    -- Hermione Lee

   -- Times Literary Supplement

"[T]he overall impression is that of a delicate, triumphant glance, an acknowledgment of Woolf that takes her into Cunningham's own territory, a place of late-century danger but also of treasurable hours."    -- Michael Wood

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Picador USA
Published date: 2002
Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 240

Publisher's Notes

A novel about three very different women--Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, and Laura Brown--whose lives and destinies become intertwined spans the nation, from New York to Los Angeles, and follows them to a haunting and surprising conclusion. Reissue. 150,000 first printing. (A new film, written by David Hare, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman) (General Fiction)

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Paperback Reissue - St Martins Pr (2002) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Farrar Straus & Giroux (1998) - from $1.00

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