description: Intertwines the stories of three women linked by their relationship to Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway: Woolf herself, in the throes of writing Mrs. Dalloway and contemplating suicide; Laura, a young wife and mother suffocating in the confines of her tidy life in Los Angeles in 1949; and Clarissa, who is giving a party in the present in New York City for her closest friend, Richard, a writer dying of AIDS.
language: English
title: The Hours
titlecomplete: The Hours
characters: Clarissa Vaughan, Dan Brown (The Hours), Richard Brown, Sally (The Hours), Laura Brown, Vanessa Bell, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Louis Waters
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Queer, Novels, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 138346
places: California, The United States of America, New York City, New York, New York (State), Los Angeles, California, United Kingdom, Richmond, London, England, England
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