This short book was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1999 and takes as its start point the graphic suicide of Virginia Woolf. The tragic loss of one of the leading lights of the 'Bloomsbury Group' in 1941, finally succumbing to the fatal depths of recurrent depression at the age of just 5...
I'd like to thank the blizzard that kept me home with a pot of tea and this book today. It is so good. I have a preference for character-driven stories and intertwining narratives. This had both of those elements with the added bonus of peering into the inner lives of three women. Let me say it a...
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and ...
”We throw our parties; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or tak...
I was to read a Pulitzer-winning work for a book-reading challenge, and came across this: with three different story threads from different times and places. The author, Virginia Woolf, who is writing 'Mrs Dalloway' in a 1923 London suburb features in one of them, a reader who is reading the aforeti...
I tried to read The Hours once several years ago, perhaps just after the movie had come out. For some reason I put the book down and never revisited it until now. It's not an impossible book to read, and as I haven't read Mrs. Dalloway, the book with which this story is entwined, I can't confirm th...
Every time I read this book, I love it even more. Which I never think is possible. The beauty of Michael Cunningham simply astounds me. The nuanced characters whose lives blend together perfectly are a delight to rediscover. And I never tire of it.
I think the highest praise I can give this novel is that it was worth suffering through Mrs Dalloway to get the most out of it. The Hours, you see, could be described as a "derivative work" ie fan fiction. One thread is about Virginia Woolf, the author of Mrs Dalloway, another about a woman reading ...
The Hours curiously begins with an ending. Yet, before that ending, one the first leaflet one can note a quote from Jorge Luis Borges poem 'The Other Tiger.' It is fascinating that Michael Cunningham chose to use such a quote, considering Borges' fascination with labyrinths and metalanguage. For Cun...
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