Title: The hours
First published: 1998
Description: A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. 

The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Richard, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. 

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Man-woman relationships in fiction, Women in fiction, Influence, Women, Woolf, Virginia, in fiction, Terminally ill in fiction, Terminally ill, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Roman américain, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes, Malades en phase terminale, French fiction, Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Romance, Literatura norte-americana, Large type books, Lebensfuhrung, Frau, Belletristische Darstellung, Man-Woman relationships-Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=1999, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, New York Times reviewed, Man-woman relationships, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Authors, fiction, Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction Winner, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)
People: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)