THE HOURS: Michael Cunningham

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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, `The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. 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. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.

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Weight 0.172 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format
Language
Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2003-1-2
Imprint

Edition Number

1st
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1841150355
About The Author

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York. His first novel, A Home at the End of the World, was published in 1990 and his second, Flesh and Blood, in 1995. His work has been published in the New Yorker.
Review Quote

"A major achievement from a writer who has earned every work of priase yet directed at him. Not only is The Hours a mahor achievement for Cunningham, it is important for fiction." — Irish Times

"Extremely moving, original and memorable." — Hermione Lee

"this chmber piece rhapsodises on creativity and madness, love and loss." — Esquire

Engrossing, Imaginative and humane." — Observer
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.

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