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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312305062
ISBN: 0312305060
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Picador
Sales Rank: 192637
Studio: Picador
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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.
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The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize: There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects." --Kerry Fried
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a lyrical but highly experimental writer whose novels frequently deal in both the endless details and transitory nature of life, shifting back and forth in time, and frequently employing a style that is commonly known as "stream of conciousness." With THE HOURS, writer Michael Cunningham referrences Woolf's concerns and style while interweaving the stories of three women: Virginia Woolf herself in the 1920s, as she begins to write the novel MRS. DALLOWAY; Laura Brown ... Read More
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I am the last person I know to have read THE HOURS. I admit I delayed for mostly wrong reasons, put off by the success of the popular movie, and then by hearing that is was a reworking of one of my favorite books, MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf. I still haven't seen the movie, but within the first few chapters of the book, I realized that this was far from being a mere spin-off. Michael Cunningham seems virtually to channel Virginia Woolf, not only capturing her style and sensibility, but revisiting ... Read More
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I loved this book. Thoroughly and completely, I loved this book. I am shocked that there are 48 people who gave this book a rating of 1 star. I have never read Virginia Woolf's, Mrs. Dalloway, and I probably won't. But this fact did not take away any enjoyment or appreciation I felt for this book. To each their own, I suppose. From the first paragraph I was hooked. The words are beautiful and profound. I was amazed how Michael Cunningham could create such real and vivid characters, with such insightful, ... Read More
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If I had only one word to sum up this book it would have to be "depressing". Even the author/narrator sounded depressed as he read this book in a monotonous tone. I found this story a very difficult one to stick with as the book was populated with people who were unhappy, suicidal and unsatisfied with their lives. It left me feeling extremely gloomy. I most definitely will not be renting the movie as I don't care to relive the story again.
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After finishing "The Hours," I perused the critics' reviews on the back cover. I was sincerely disappointed that all the critics got out of the book was that Cunningham proves the relevance of literature in ordinary life. Cunningham's in-depth exploration of a day in the lives of three women examines much more profound themes, such as disappointment and satisfaction in daily life, the meaning of happiness, the need to "play a role" in order to continue regular social interaction, and the feeling of entrapment ... Read More
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