The Hours

Hardcover, 229 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-17289-3
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OCLC Number:
39339842

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In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, who is recognized as 'one of our very best writers' (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), 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 …

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