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The Hours: A Novel by Cunningham, Michael is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Hours: A Novel about?
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. Amazon.com Review 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 t
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Cunningham, Michael
- Publisher
- Farrar,Straus and Giroux; Picador USA; Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781841150352
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (99,078 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14