The Hours
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312243029
Subjects: Terminally ill; New York; Influence; Fiction; Fiction - General; Woolf, Virginia,; Women; New York (State); Literary; Fiction / Literary; Woolf, Virginia; Reading Group Guide; 1882-1941; Man-woman relationships
First sentence: There are still the flowers to buy.
Description: Passionate,profound, and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planing a party in honor of a beloved friend: Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb, and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have interwtined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.