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The Hoursby Michael Cunningham
Powells.com Staff PickAfter completing his first two books, Michael Cunningham's writing career was right on track. Both novels had received excellent reviews, and Cunningham had established a small, loyal following among readers of literary fiction. He then decided to commit artistic suicide — his third book would be a novelistic meditation on Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Cunningham, himself, admitted feeling foolish. Whatever he created would only suffer in comparison to Woolf's Modernist masterpiece. And the professionals in the Virginia Woolf industry weren't likely to appreciate his audacity. Somehow, though, Cunningham turned the trick. The three thematically-related novellas that make up The Hours pay loving tribute to Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway without ever feeling derivative or slight in comparison. And Michael Cunningham has proven that he is one of the few writers alive whose prose is lyrical, spare, and beautiful enough to withstand comparison to the "greatest prose stylist of the twentieth century." At least this appears to be the consensus. The Hours not only received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, it has also been enormously popular with readers. Perhaps this is because, as one reviewer put it, "the gargantuan accomplishment of this small book [is that] it makes a reader believe in the possibility and depth of a communality based on great literature, literature that has shown people how to live and what to ask of life." Farley, Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The author of "At Home at the End of the World" and "Flesh and Blood" draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. About the AuthorMichael 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. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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