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The Hours

The Hours

The Hours
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The Hours Hardback - 1998

by Cunningham, Michael

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Stiff crisp book in glossy dust jacket; about new.; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 230 pages . 0374172897 .
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  • Title The Hours
  • Author Cunningham, Michael
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; First Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 229
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 54204
  • ISBN 9780374172893 / 0374172897
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 5.8 x 0.85 in (21.89 x 14.73 x 2.16 cm)
  • Reading level 960
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98034188
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Review summary

This seller has earned a 3.99 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
3.99 / 5 (112 total reviews)

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.

Readers say this book is:
lyrical prosemelancholiccharacter-drivenintrospectiveemotionally intenseheavy themesthought-provokingpolarizingelegiacrewarding on reread

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From the publisher

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of "A Home at the End of the World "and "Flesh and Blood."
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. "The Hours" is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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About the author

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels "A Home at the End of the World" (Picador) and "Flesh and Blood." His work has appeared in "The New Yorker" and "Best American Short Stories," and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. "The Hours" was a "New York Times" Bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by" The New York Times," "Los Angeles Times," and "Publishers Weekly."

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