The Hours is a novel by America author Micheal Cunningham. The book picks up on Virginia Woolf's best-known novel Mrs Dalloway. It fictionalises a day in the life of the modernist writer when she starts writing Mrs Dalloway and intertwines this narrative with a day in the lives of two other women: Clarissa Vaughan who is organising a party for a dying friend in 1990s Manhattan and Laura Brown who is getting ready for her husband's birthday in 1940s Los Angeles. Cunningham moves enfortlessly between the decades in this imaginative and exquisite novel. It is an absolutely must read for those familiar with Virgina Woolf's fiction. However, I am sure that it can be enjoyed even by those who are not.
The book has been made into a film starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep. But despite the great cast I would still prefer the book and actually found the movie disappointing.
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