by Michael Cunningham · Harpercollins Pub Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841150352
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In 'The Hours', Michael Cunningham intertwines the lives of three women from different eras, all connected by Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Virginia Woolf, in the 1920s, struggles against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to write her new novel. Laura Brown, a young wife and mother in Los Angeles in the 1940s, yearns to escape her domestic life and finds solace in reading 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughan, in New York in the 1990s, prepares for a party in honor of a friend who is dying of AIDS. This novel explores themes of love, loss, despair, and the search for meaning in everyday life.
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.
