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The Hours Paperback - 2000

by Michael Cunningham

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The author of "At Home at the End of the World" and "Flesh and Blood" draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.

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This seller has earned a 3.99 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers largely praise Michael Cunningham’s novel for precise, musical prose and an unsparing portrait of women navigating desire, duty, and despair. Many find it emotionally resonant and rewarding on reread, noting its depth around depression, suicide, and the pressures of ordinary life. A minority struggled with the pervasive bleakness, the opening’s fictionalized suicide, or a controversial remark about gay culture, and some couldn’t connect despite admiring the style. Overall, the prose and character work drew the most consistent admiration.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.

In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.

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There are still the flowers to buy.

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  • Title The Hours
  • Author Michael Cunningham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-01-15
  • ISBN 9780312243029 / 0312243022
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 960
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99041903
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Entertainment Weekly, 01/14/2000, Page 69
  • New York Times, 01/23/2000, Page 32
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 40

About the author

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and the nonfiction book Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City, and is a senior lecturer at Yale University.
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