num_pages: 230
description: 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It is a passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
language: English
title: The Hours
titlecomplete: The Hours
characters: Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Richard Brown, Louis Waters, Sally (The Hours), Dan Brown (The Hours), Clarissa Vaughan, Leonard Woolf, Laura Brown
genres: Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Queer, Historical, Fiction, Literature, LGBT
ratings_count: 138361
places: England, New York (State), Los Angeles, California, Richmond, London, England, The United States of America, California, United Kingdom, 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: Picador