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The hours

Cunningham, Michael, 1952-2024
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Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and watched by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. Michael Cunningham's exquisite and deeply moving novel is a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham's elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
Main title:
The hours / Michael Cunningham.
Author:
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-, author
Work:
The hours
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2024.©1999
Collation:
229 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Collins modern classics
Notes:
First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 1999.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008706128 (pbk)9780008706128 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- FictionWoolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Influence -- FictionTerminally ill -- FictionWomen -- Conduct of life -- FictionWomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- FictionNew York (N.Y.) -- FictionPsychological fictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
814904
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=814904
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