shurain reviewed The hours by Michael Cunningham
Review of 'The hours' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I recommend the movie based on the novel as well.
Paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published Jan. 15, 2000 by Picador.
Passionate,profound, and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planing 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 interwtined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
periwinkleReads reviewed The hours by Michael Cunningham
Review of 'The hours' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This book was a truly unique and amazing story because it actually brings something new and valuable out of an idea that could have ended up feeling recycled. Reading this book gives you new appreciation for life, regardless of who and where you are when you read it. Further props must be given because this book was also adapated into an equally successful movie that produces many of the same feelings. It is, for once, an achievement to finish a book version of somethingyou have already seen the movie version, and think, wow, they did a good job with both of these.
Subjects
- Terminally ill
- New York
- Influence
- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Woolf, Virginia,
- Women
- New York (State)
- Literary
- Fiction / Literary
- Woolf, Virginia
- Reading Group Guide
- 1882-1941
- Man-woman relationships
Places
- New York (State)
- New York