The Hours

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  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1999)
  • Stonewall Book Award for Literature (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1999)
  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1999)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (1998)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1998)
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2000)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (1999)
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ISBN: 9780312243029
Publisher: Picador USA
Date of Publication: 2000-01-15
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: LGBT, Queer, Literature, Classics
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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 Samuel, 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.
 

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1999)
  • Stonewall Book Award for Literature (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1999)
  • Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1999)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (1998)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1998)
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2000)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Ferro-Grumley Awards (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.