{"product_id":"the-hours-michael-cunningham","title":"The Hours -- Michael Cunningham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Michael Cunningham, who is recognized as \"one of our very best writers\" (Richard Eder, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), draw inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, and ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heartbreaking way during the party for Richard. As the novel jump-cuts through the twentieth century, every line resonates with Cunningham's clear, strong, surprising lyrical contemporary voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePassionate, profound and deeply moving, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Michael Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSED BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e230 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published July 31, 1998\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42892065407070,"sku":"9780374172893","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/598662.jpg?v=1781457214","url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/products\/the-hours-michael-cunningham","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}