The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
(5/5)
Fiction
First Published in 1998Publisher; Fourth Estate, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers Set in: London, New York City and Los Angeles (1920s/1940s/1990s) Won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Won the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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Book Synopsis:
Three women.
1920s London. Virginia Woolf attempts to begin her new novel, but she is struggling to settle her unruly mind.
1940s Los Angeles. In the stifling heat, Laura Brown, a young mother and wife aches to abandon her domestic life to escape to the solitude of reading Mrs Dalloway.
1990s New York. Clarissa Vaughan hosts a party for a dying friend.
Michael Cunningham uses the life and works of Virginia Woolf as inspiration for a moving reflection on love, failure, despair and artistic behaviour.
