The Hours
By Michael Cunningham
- Release Date: 1998-07-31
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.
The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Reviews
Not My Style - I Guess.
1By Reba and ZoeyI realize this is Pulitzer material but I was so bored I quit after 44 pages. And that was after forcing myself to keep reading.A classic
5By Literary FanI read this in a day, then reread it over a week. So much depth and nuisance. Brilliant writing. Must read.
