The Hours
A Novel
Picador Modern Classics (Volume 1)Michael Cunningham
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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.
The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Boston Book Review - Nominee, National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, Lambda Literary Award - Nominee, National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nominee, ALA Stonewall Book Award - Winner, Triangle Awards - Winner, National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee, ALA Notable Books - Winner
Excerpt from The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Copyright © 1998 by Michael Cunningham. To be published in November, 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.
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“A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse.” —USA Today
“An exquisitely written, kaleidoscopic work that anchors a floating postmodern world on pre-modern caissons of love, grief, and transcendent longing.” —Los Angeles Times
“Cunningham has created something original, a trio of richly interwoven tales...his most mature and masterful work.” —The Washington Post Book World
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