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Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In 1990s New York, Clarissa Vaughan goes shopping for flowers for a party for her AIDS-suffering poet-friend. This novel meditates on artistic behaviour, love and madness.
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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate profound and haunting story of love and inheritance hope and despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And in New York in the 1990s Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunningham's exquisite and deeply moving novel which takes Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour failure love and madness.Moving effortlessy across the decades and between England and America Cunningham's elegant haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
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The Hours : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9781841150352 : : 10 Feb 2003 : Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
- 1841150355
- 9781841150352
- Michael Cunningham
- 2 January 2003
- Fourth Estate
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- (Reissue)
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