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In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.
Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage.
With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heart-breaking way during the party for Richard.
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Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Man-woman relationships in fiction, Women in fiction, Influence, Women, Woolf, Virginia, in fiction, Terminally ill in fiction, Terminally ill, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Roman américain, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes, Malades en phase terminale, French fiction, Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Romance, Literatura norte-americana, Large type books, Lebensfuhrung, Frau, Belletristische Darstellung, Man-Woman relationships-Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=1999, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, New York Times reviewed, Man-woman relationships, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Authors, fictionPeople
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Die Stunden: Roman
2006-09, btb
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The hours
2002, Farrar,Straus and Giroux, Picador USA, Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
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Les Heures / The Hours
October 2001, Pocket (FR)
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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 Richard, 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.
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