The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
Taste attributes: dramagay/lesbianslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeA stirring, serious novel: grounded and unhurried. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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4.4 / 5
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About This Book
A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. 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.
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- Author
- Michael Cunningham
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 230
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