The Hours The Hours

The Hours

A Novel

    • 4.1 • 204 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1998
July 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
230
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
676.8
KB

Customer Reviews

mike_10009 ,

Late to the game…

This book is almost twenty-five years old now as I read it for the first time. And, it’s an example of why some books are classics, even when they’re anchored to a particular era in our history. That anchor provides substance and atmosphere, but it’s the human condition, presented faithfully, honestly, and meaningfully that makes classics — and this book — timeless and substantive for any audience. Also, reading The Hours at a point in our current timeline when depression is being examined so much more openly has also been an eye-opening — and, at times, confirming — experience. The thread that ties this novel together is also masterfully crafted and the language is beautiful yet deliberate.

Literary Fan ,

A classic

I read this in a day, then reread it over a week. So much depth and nuisance. Brilliant writing. Must read.

Reba and Zoey ,

Not My Style - I Guess.

I realize this is Pulitzer material but I was so bored I quit after 44 pages. And that was after forcing myself to keep reading.

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