num_pages: 230
description: In 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.The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.
language: English
title: The Hours
titlecomplete: The Hours
characters: Virginia Woolf, Dan Brown (The Hours), Richard Brown, Sally (The Hours), Laura Brown, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clarissa Vaughan, Louis Waters
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Queer, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 138327
places: Los Angeles, California, United Kingdom, England, New York (State), Richmond, London, England, The United States of America, California, New York City, New York
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