The Hours (Picador Modern Classics, #1) (The Perennial Collection)

by Michael Cunningham

Winner of the Pulitzer prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and nominated for 9 Academy Awards, "The Hours" is now available on Unabridged CD.
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours "tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb and beginning to write" Mrs. Dalloway." By the end of the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace, demonstrating Michael Cunningham's deep empathy for his characters as well as the extraordinary resonance of his language.

• ISBN10: 1559279311
• ISBN13: 9781559279314
• Publish Date: 1 September 2003 (first published 31 July 1998)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 18 December 2011
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Renaissance Audio
• Format: Hardcover
• Duration: 7 hours
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bianca]

‪2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge‬
‪38. A book told from multiple character POVs‬

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep—it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
Heaven only knows why we love it so.

‪— About a day in the lives of three women trying to find meaning in their mundane lives, struggling with the idea that they will continue living the way they do hour by hour, day by day, for the rest of time‬