Good Books Lately | The Hours | Michael Cunningham

The Hours
Michael Cunningham. Picador USA: 2000 (paperback). ISBN: 0312243022. 230 pages.

The movie, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and a stunning performance from Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf, is damp with the prints of a thousand adoring critical hands across the country! Now's the perfect time to read Michael Cunningham's breathtakingly original novel. Wow. Think of the incredible feat Virginia Woolf achieved in Mrs. Dalloway ; now watch a contemporary writer take that book's delicate, intricate structure and myriad complexities to an even more transcendent level. In his reworking of Woolf's classic modernist text, Cunningham manages to create a profoundly original work that both illuminates Woolf's novel and stands on its own. The Hours explores the lives of three women: Clarissa Vaughn, preparing to throw a party for a celebrated but dying friend; Laura Brown, fighting to maintain her sanity in what she sees as the grossly empty world that is suburban LA of the 1950s; and Virginia Woolf herself, beginning a novel called Mrs. Dalloway. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.

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