by Michael Cunningham · Macmillan USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312243029
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«The Hours» is the literary fiction novel by Michael Cunningham, published by Picador in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Clarissa Vaughan prepares a party in New York for a friend ill with AIDS; Laura Brown, a housewife in the 1950s, feels trapped; Virginia Woolf writes «Mrs. Dalloway» while struggling with her illness. Three women from different eras are united by Woolf's novel and its questions about identity and happiness.
«The Hours» won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999 and was adapted into a film in 2002. It is volume 1 of the Picador Modern Classics collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and for those who want to explore Virginia Woolf's influence on current narrative.
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University.
