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.
230 pages
English language
Published May 6, 2002 by Farrar,Straus and Giroux, Picador USA.
The hours
4 stars
(19 reviews)
A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Richard, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
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.
