The Hours
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Literature
James Mustich
Sep 4, 2018
Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, set on a single June day in London, is punctuated by the tolling of Big Ben, the bell inside the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament. Its regular marking of the time—“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable”—reminds Clarissa Dalloway of both the day’s passage and the evanescence of all things. This indelible symbol provided Woolf’s novel with its working title: The Hours. Seven decades on, Michael Cunningham, a writer of uncommon sensitivity and an unabashed Woolf lover, retrieved it for his best novel, a stunning invocation of Mrs. Dalloway and a masterful fiction in its own right. The Hours (1998) is a book that leaves the reader feeling hopeful and blessed, suffused with the ever-present, ineffable wonder of life. Really.
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Janice Badger Nelson
Jan 18, 2019
I loved this book.
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Chuck Munro
Mar 18, 2019
It's not Woolf, but it does the job of helping us understand more about why we love her.
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Deirdre
Jun 25, 2019
A wonderful work of fiction
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