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The hours

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.

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  • "Book clubs to go : The Hours"@en
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  • "Hours"
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  • "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."@en
  • "The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David HareThe Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace."
  • "In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage."
  • "In a novel of love, family inheritance, and desperation, the author offers a fictional account of Virginia Woolf's last days and her friendship with a poet living in his mother's shadow."
  • "In a novel of love, family inheritance, and desperation, the author offers a fictional account of Virginia Woolf's last days and her friendship with a poet living in his mother's shadow."@en
  • "Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planing a party in honor of a beloved friend: Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb, and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace."@en
  • "In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it."@en
  • "A young man is dying of AIDS and has a farewell party hours before his death."@en
  • "Een dag uit het leven van drie vrouwen in de jaren '20, '40 en '90, met als bindend element de roman "Mrs. Dalloway" van Virginia Woolf."
  • "A trio of stories based around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In the second, in 1949 Los Angeles, Laura Brown can't seem to stop reading Woolf. In the present, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility."
  • "The stories of three women in different parts of the world come together to form one act of subtle haunting grace."
  • "The Hours is both a homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. One grey suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to 'Mrs. Dalloway'. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of an AIDS-related illness. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to."@en
  • "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, The Hours is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date."@en
  • "Now made into a film."@en
  • "Trois histoires reliées par un jeu de correspondance dont la cohésion ne sera révélée que dans les dernières pages. Un hommage à Virginia Woolf."
  • "Winner of the pulitzer Prize."@en
  • "Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planing a party in honor of a beloved friend: Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb, and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have interwtined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace."@en
  • "In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage. With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heart-breaking way during the party for Richard."
  • "In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolf's last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage. With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two women's lives converge with Virginia Woolf's in an unexpected and heart-breaking way during the party for Richard."@en
  • "Fictionalised account of the last few days of Virginia Woolf's life."
  • "A trio of stories around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The second story is on a woman reading the novel in 1949 Los Angeles, while the third is on a woman in present-day New York who has been nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway by her boyfriend."@es
  • "A trio of stories around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The second story is on a woman reading the novel in 1949 Los Angeles, while the third is on a woman in present-day New York who has been nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway by her boyfriend."@en
  • "A trio of stories around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The second story is on a woman reading the novel in 1949 Los Angeles, while the third is on a woman in present-day New York who has been nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway by her boyfriend."
  • "The hours comprises the stories of three women--Clarissa Vaughan, who is planning a party for a dying friend in the New York of today; Laura Brown, a wife and mother who struggles with thoughts of suicide in 1950s Los Angeles; and the famed writer Virginia Woolf, who in 1930s England labors over the beginning of her novel Mrs Dalloway."
  • "Trois histoires reliées par un jeu de correspondances dont la cohésion ne sera révélée, de manière inattendue, que dans les dernières pages. Au-delà d'un hommage à Virginia Woolf, une réflexion sur la création littéraire mais aussi une méditation sur le temps, l'amour et la mort. Prix Pulitzer."

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  • "Novela psicológica"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Specimens"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Young adult works"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@es
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Domestic fiction"@es
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Popular literature"

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  • "Las Horas"@es
  • "Las Horas"
  • "세월"
  • "The hours'"
  • "Hodiny"
  • "Les Hores"
  • "Les Hores"@ca
  • "Le ore"
  • "Le ore"@it
  • "Die Stunden Roman"
  • "Timerne"@da
  • "Saatler : Roman"
  • "Las horas"
  • "Las horas"@es
  • "Le Ore"@it
  • "Godziny"@pl
  • "Godziny"
  • "Les heures"
  • "Saatler : roman"
  • "The hours"@en
  • "The hours"
  • "The hours : niveau avancé"
  • "The hours A Novel"
  • "Les hores"
  • "Sāʻath́ā"
  • "Sewŏl = The hours"
  • "Chasovete"
  • "Sati"
  • "الساعات : رواية"
  • "The hours a novel"@en
  • "세월 = The hours"
  • "Saatha"
  • "The Hours"
  • "The Hours"@en
  • "De uren"
  • "THE HOURS"
  • "THE HOURS"@en
  • "Saatler :roman = [The hours]"
  • "Thời khắc"
  • "al-sāʻāt : riwāyah"
  • "The Hours: A Novel"@en
  • "Часы : роман"
  • "Die Stunden : Roman"
  • "The hours : screenplay"
  • "Chasy : roman"
  • "Az órák"@hu
  • "Az órák"
  • "Sewŏl"
  • "As horas"@pt
  • "As horas"
  • "La ore"@it
  • "The hours : [a novel]"
  • "˜Dieœ Stunden Roman"

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