num_pages: 226
description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONIn 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.
language: English
title: The Hours
titlecomplete: The Hours
characters: Sally (The Hours), Dan Brown (The Hours), Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Laura Brown, Louis Waters, Richard Brown, Clarissa Vaughan
genres: Classics, LGBT, Historical, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 138333
places: Los Angeles, California, England, New York City, New York, Richmond, London, England, United Kingdom, California, New York (State), The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Fourth Estate