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| Title | : | The Hours |
| Author | : | Michael Cunningham |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 230 pages |
| Published | : | October 2002 by Picador USA (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy |
Michael Cunningham
Paperback | Pages: 230 pages Rating: 3.93 | 122227 Users | 4873 Reviews
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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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Ratings: 3.93 From 122227 Users | 4873 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books The Hours
Okay, let's be honest, the only reason this book isn't getting a D is because the language was very beautiful... most of the time. It was beautiful when it wasn't beating me over the head with the whole, "Look how eloquently I can write and use big words and sound smart! Don't you feel smart just reading it? Oh, wait... you just feel stupid, huh?" Which, honestly, wasn't that much, but it was enough to annoy me.The problem I had with the whole story was that I could not find sympathy in any ofAll in a DayI am the last person I know to have read The Hours. I admit I delayed for mostly wrong reasons, put off by the success of the popular movie, and then by hearing that is was a reworking of one of my favorite books, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I still haven't seen the movie, but within the first few chapters of the book, I realized that this was far from being a mere spin-off. Michael Cunningham seems virtually to channel Virginia Woolf, not only capturing her style and
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
I saw the movie. I read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (2 stars) and finally read this book.This is an easier read than Mrs. Dalloway because this uses contemporary English. Well, that thin book by Woolf was one of the first few classics that I had read upon joining Goodreads and I knew I must have missed somethings that was why I just found it okay (2 stars). I should read it again someday.The movie stayed true to this book so it was not hard to imagine the scenes described in here even if I
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
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
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