I actually read every word of this book. I didn't skim anything or rush through, like I usually do (especially to short books I can finish in a day or two). And I thought about it a lot. I would stop in the middle of pages to form mini-essays in my head about what's going on, the characters, the th...
First sentence: "She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather."P. 99: "She does not want the mess her son would make of it.Last sentence: "'Come in, Mrs Brown,', she says. 'Everything is ready.'" This book can be considered to be a sort of tribute to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dall...
Well, I sure as hell wish I'd read Mrs. Dalloway before I read this. I felt like I missed a lot of references that would have enriched the story.A day in the life of three women from different times, so different they're like different worlds. Virginia Woolf, Clarissa, and Laura Brown.Clarissa liv...
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize winning homage to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the reader travels between single days in the lives of three women. The first is Virginia Woolf herself, convalescing at a country estate to rest from the stresses of London and beginning to craft Mrs...
Michael Cunningham does a wonderful impersonation of Virginia Woolf. There are many who disagree, but it was clear to me that with passage after passage he nails it. Cunningham must use a single day in the life of three generations of women to approach the completeness of 'Mrs. Dalloway', but I enjo...
In this book everything is hang up on one term: inter-textuality.Mrs. Dalloway is the subject/object that is the intermediate between three women, three, as it seems at first, totally different and incoherent lives. There is Virginia Woolf, who is writing Mrs Dalloway, struggling wi...
I couldn't connect with the characters or have any sympathy for them. Each chapter focuses on one of the three women, Mrs. Woolf, Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Dalloway. The few interesting parts of the story came from Mrs. Woolf's chapters. There was an interesting twist at the end that I didn't see coming...
I bought this book a couple of years ago when I found it from this sale basket from the local bookstore. I had heard about the movie made from this novel, but I had not seen it. When I had some time to read something other than school books (NOW I ONLY HAVE TIME FOR OTHER BOOKS, FINALLY) I picked th...
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