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The Hours Complete & Unabridged

By Michael Cunningham

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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 tContinue

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What a good book should bring to the reader are these:pure entertainment and thoroughly fluent narration of events, and of course, deep stirring of feelings.
The hours has all of them.
I can't name any other book that has so caught my attention as The Hours did. And I am unable to name any ... (continue)

What a good book should bring to the reader are these:pure entertainment and thoroughly fluent narration of events, and of course, deep stirring of feelings.
The hours has all of them.
I can't name any other book that has so caught my attention as The Hours did. And I am unable to name any other book as well, which has more touching paragraphs as this. For days I would read loud passages after passages, fully savouring the words. Really I would think the composition alone makes the work quite perfect in literary standard. Chapters are simply words stringed together like jewels.
My favorite parts included the beginning where the letter, simple but with so much deep, disturbing forces not unlike the dark torrents about to carry Ms.Woolf away. The parts about Clarissa are also favorite reads.
For reasons I have yet to uncover, some chapters concerning Richard and his mother can sometimes be unbearably painful to read. Not that the book is ill-written. The feeling of deep disturbance I guess, is the reason. Somehow it makes me uncomfortable.
A great book. A great read, literally.

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razor's edge said on Mar 4, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Good companion to the movie

This is the same story, told in mostly the same way. It's excellent. I recommend seing the movie, reading this book, reading Mrs. Dalloway and even watching the movie version of Mrs. Dalloway, if possible.

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Hans said on Nov 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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A lovely book. Like "Mrs Dalloway" it took me some time to get into the story, but once I did, I thought it was really remarkable.
"The Hours" plays off "Mrs Dalloway" beautifully. And doesn't resort (entirely) to the same bash-you-over-the-head with an anvil of OMGSYMBOLISM like the movie ve ... (continue)

A lovely book. Like "Mrs Dalloway" it took me some time to get into the story, but once I did, I thought it was really remarkable.
"The Hours" plays off "Mrs Dalloway" beautifully. And doesn't resort (entirely) to the same bash-you-over-the-head with an anvil of OMGSYMBOLISM like the movie version did.

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Hold Your Spin said on Nov 28, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

sofisticato e metaletterario, commovente tributo alla prosa di Virginia Woolf

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Andretwp said on Jan 31, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Wow

Delicate, intense, senstive, intelligent, and with the power to make me want to reread Mrs. Dalloway.

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fran_ces said on Nov 22, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

The Hours

I was swept away in the parallels of the lives of the three women in the story (four if you count Mrs. Dalloway). I even went out to get Mrs. Dalloway to read because since I had not yet read that book I'm sure I missed many of the literary references therein. The ending was just the icing on the ... (continue)

I was swept away in the parallels of the lives of the three women in the story (four if you count Mrs. Dalloway). I even went out to get Mrs. Dalloway to read because since I had not yet read that book I'm sure I missed many of the literary references therein. The ending was just the icing on the cake.

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Readingrat said on Apr 17, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback