The Hours by Michael Cunningham is a novel about how Virginia Woolf affected Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan and how their lives are intertwined. Laura Brown is an unhappy housewife who often has thoughts of suicide and is the reader of Woolf’s book, “Mrs. Dalloway.” Clarissa, nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway by her lover Richard, is attempting to throw a party in Richard’s honor for winning the Carrouthers Prize. Dying from AIDS, Richard does not attend the party, but commits suicide by leaping from a fifth story window.
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 o...
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It can be safely asserted that The Hours, authored by Michael Cunningham, is one of the most successful American novels in recent years. Its publication in 1998 was immediately succeeded by wide acc...
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Death and re-birth in The Hours
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 n...
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