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The Hours

of Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)

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Description

In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.

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Fiction Fiction Historical Fiction Contemporary LGBT Literary Fiction Novels Literature Classics Historical American

Main Characters

Clarissa Vaughan Laura Brown Virginia Woolf

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 230 pages
  • Publisher Picador USA
  • Publication Date 10/28/02
  • First Publication 11/01/98
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780312305062
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['London, England', 'New York City, New York (United States)', 'Los Angeles, California (United States)']

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