This book is inspired by Mrs Dalloway and her complicated creator,
Virginia Woolf. Indeed reading the two books simultaneously,
comparison can be drawn on a virtually sentence-to-sentence basis.
However, The Hours does not rest on the laurels of its inspiration.
Set, like Mrs Dalloway, during one summer's day, the book is a
penetrating study of humanity, of love, death, madness and
sexuality; of our vision of ourselves and of others. Three stories
of different periods occupy the day: that of Virginia Woolf herself
and her entourage, of Laura Brown in 1940s Los Angeles and of
Clarissa Vaughan in 1990s New York. The alternating chapters slide
easily in and out of one another, slotting together unexpectedly
and wholly naturally in the last chapter. This carefully studied,
many-tiered, highly literary book offers an insight into Virginia
Woolf and what lay behind her characters and a moving account of
the shared experiences of women through the century. (Kirkus UK)
Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS.
These are the characters in Michael Cunningham’s exquisite and deeply moving new novel, which takes Woolf’s life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham’s elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
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