The Hours -- Michael Cunningham - Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare

In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.

Author: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/15/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312243029

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 31227 / Hours

Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee
Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2000 pg. 69
New York Times 01/23/2000 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 05/25/2001 pg. 74

About the Author

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World (Picador) and Flesh and Blood. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. The Hours was a New York Times Bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly.