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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback - LARGE PRINT BOOK,
Edition: LARGEPRINT
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 0783887140
Release Date: Jan 1, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage. With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heart-breaking way during the party for Richard.
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I can totally relate!!!
-- A reviewer, April 23, 2002
Three in One
-- Jo, an avid reader living in Australia, January 25, 2002
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| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Cunningham counterpoints the story of Virginia Woolf's last days with a tale of friends in contemporary New York that ingeniously echoes Mrs. Dalloway
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
What had at first been "schematic and precious" became improvisational, aiming for..."the loose, riffish quality of Mrs. Dalloway....I wanted my book to have its own life, not to be just an annex to Woolf's." In the end it became a triptych....Each story resonates within the others.
— Interviewed in The New York Times, April 20, 1999 —Michael Cunningham
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