The Hours
A Novel
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- 79,00 kr
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham’s breakthrough novel takes a deeper dive into the book’s subtle themes of sexual identity and mental illness. Echoing Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness style, Cunningham explores the interior lives of three women: Woolf herself; Laura Brown, a dissatisfied suburban housewife in 1949; and Clarissa Vaughan, a contemporary woman whose day mirrors Mrs. Dalloway’s episodic plot. But The Hours is way more than a brain exercise or gimmick—Cunningham has fierce empathy for his emotionally overwhelmed characters, and he writes beautifully about their sudden and intense epiphanies.
