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The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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Author Biography

Name: Michael Cunningham
Birth Date: November 6, 1952
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Michael Cunningham
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Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, critics usually considered Michael Cunningham to be just another of the growing number of novelists chronicling the experience of gay Americans in the age of AIDS. These novelists included David Leavitt, Edmund...


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The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne...


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The Sunday Telegraph London
Eternity in an hour Anthony Thwaite is moved by this Japanese novel inspired by Blake
07/28/2002: 449 words, approx. 2 pages
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe tr by John Nathan Atlantic Books, pounds 12.99, 259 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 KENZABURO OE' s new book first appeared...
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After hours: with a blockbuster under his belt, Michael Cunningham debuts a daring new novel.(eye)
06/01/2005: 868 words, approx. 3 pages
Following up on success can be a daunting task. Just ask Michael Cunningham, whose last novel, 1998's The Hours, was not just a best-seller but also won the Pulitzer Prize and was turned into a movie that was nominated for nine Academy Awards....
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The New York Observer
Meet Shaun Donovan, Affordable Housing\'d5s Man of the Hour
8/7/2007: 640 words, approx. 2 pages
Location: Why is affordable housing so important to New York’s economy? Mr. Donovan: One of the central goals of the economic development agenda for the city under the Bloomberg administration has been to diversify the economy. If you look at New York’s economy, tourism has...
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AP News
Myanmar citizens launch silent protest
10/2/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
A growing number of citizens in Myanmar's largest city are shutting off the government-run nightly newscast, trying to send the subtle message to authorities that they are tired of listening to their propaganda, residents said Tuesday.Most are switching off the news for the first 15...
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Pilgrimage of the Self : an Exisentential Examination of the Hours
10,439 words, approx. 35 pages
Annalyzes the three female characters in The Hours written by Michael Cunnningham. Also explores the central motif of the novel, the problem of human existence and the key-notion of the philosophy of existentialism.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Death and Rebirth in the Hours
1,804 words, approx. 6 pages
Adapted from Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Director Stephen Daldry and playwright David Hare, The Hours was inspired by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. It is no coincidence that The Hours was the working title Woolf had given Mrs. Dalloway as she was writing it.


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The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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