The Hours
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Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and watched 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 âMrs Dallowayâ.
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.
Michael Cunninghamâs exquisite and deeply moving novel is a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, Cunninghamâs elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
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Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels, including âA Home at the End of the Worldâ, âFlesh and Bloodâ, âThe Hoursâ (winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), âSpecimen Daysâ and âBy Nightfallâ, as well as âLandâs End: A Walk in Provincetownâ. His most recent novel is âThe Snow Queenâ. He lives in New York.
