description: Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol, Virginia Woolf, to life, intertwining her story with that of two contemporary women.
title: The Hours
titlecomplete: The Hours
characters: Laura Brown, Louis Waters, Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, Sally (The Hours), Richard Brown, Leonard Woolf, Dan Brown (The Hours), Vanessa Bell
genres: Fiction, Historical, Queer, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 138345
places: New York (State), The United States of America, Los Angeles, California, New York City, New York, Richmond, London, England, England, California, United Kingdom
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: Books on Tape