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Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel takes inspiration from the life and works of Virginia Woolf, weaving together the lives of three women, including Woolf herself. In the 1920s, Woolf struggles to finish her latest novel while dealing with the scourge of mental illness. In 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother seeks freedom from her stifling domestic life through the magic of Woolf's book Mrs. Dalloway. 50 years later in New York City, another woman goes to buy the flowers for the party she's throwing in honor of her friend Richard, an award-winning poet who is suffering from AIDS.
Moving across time and location, The Hours shows how womanhood, creativity, and progress are ideas hard fought for and carry a heavy legacy.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.
The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home.
By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
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