The
Hours By Michael Cunningham Picador USA, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998 ISBN: 0312305060 Fiction-Literary Reviewed by Carolyn
Howard-Johnson, MyShelf.com Now the Movie is Eminent The Hours
has Much to Say to "The Hours" is aptly named, as one would expect from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Like an hour, it can be singularly beautiful, a momentary flash and very long indeed. Like the hours of our lives, it can feel fragmented, full, and intact--in increments or all at once. Michael Cunningham has
written a literary novel firmly revisiting the 1920s, Virginia Woolf and
her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. I thought I would remember enough about Woolf's
work to do justice to The Hours. I was wrong. You, too, may want to reread
the book to which The Hours pays tribute, if you are determined to get
the most from it, hear the lingering whispers, find the subtle innuendoes,
recognize the implications. ------- |
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