The Hours - Michael Cunningham

The Hours

By Michael Cunningham

  • Release Date: 1998-07-31
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
4
From 205 Ratings

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.

Reviews

  • Not My Style - I Guess.

    1
    By Reba and Zoey
    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.
  • A classic

    5
    By Literary Fan
    I read this in a day, then reread it over a week. So much depth and nuisance. Brilliant writing. Must read.