Publishers Weekly, March 8th, 1999
THANKS TO GLOWING reviews and now a National Book Critics Circle award nomination, Michael Cunningham's The Hours is selling more copies in its fifth month of publication than it did in its first. The book, an homage and update to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, has gone back to press five times, and now has 37,500 copies in print, a record that tops Cunningham's previous hardcover sales. The Hours has also hit the San Francisco Chronicle, L.A. Times and Newsday bestseller lists.
"Michael has always been beloved by the literati and received some wonderful reviews," said his agent Gail Hochm...
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