“Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?”
The Hours is a complex and thought-provoking novel that weaves together the narratives of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, a middle-aged New York City party planner; Laura Brown, a housewife living in the 1950s; and Virginia Woolf herself, writing Mrs. Dalloway. The novel delves into the psychological and emotional landscapes of these characters, examining their struggles with personal crises and the universal human experience of time and memory. more
Michael Cunningham is an American writer renowned for his novel 'The Hours', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and gender. more
“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”
“Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?”