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Rating:  - too contrived
I thought this book did a disservice to Virginia Woolfe by transposing her brilliant and poignant novel (Mrs. Dalloway) onto a modern day plot. Substituting character names, locations, and various major and minor sub-texts (AIDS in place of post-war trauma; a movie star in place of a queen) does not create an original novel (or even a thought-provoking sequel). I don't think you can "cover" literature in the same way you can cover a song.The other two sections of the book, which dealt with the 50's housewife who read Mrs. Dalloway, and the fictional account of V. Woolfe writing the novel, were much more enjoyable and well done.
Rating: - A day in the life....
Michael Cunningham has captured the spirit of three very different women. Even though we only get a glimpse of one day out of a lifetime, Cunningham is able to show the strentgh and integrity that each character shows in times of crisis, loss, or sadness.
The three women are Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown, and Clarissa Vaughn. Virginia has to deal with a life full of dead pan headahces and voices that won't leave her in peace. She has a semi droll existence in a suburb od England and she dreams of going back to the city. She wants to explore. Virginia is in the process of writing her masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway, on this day of days. She has a visit from her sister in which a death is experienced. Virginia wishes she could lay in the place of the bird her niece and nephews have created a funeral pyre for. Laura Brown is a Los Angeles housewife in the 1950's. She is pregnant with her second child, and it is her husbands birthday. The husband that she married not because she "loved" him, but because he was a good man and he was strong. Laura uses books to escape from her unhappiness. The frivolity of life sends her to a motel to get away from the child that always seems aware of her and the cake with the crumbs in the icing. Her current escape is Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which she reads in the hotel room that would be a perfect place to die alone. The third woman is Clarissa Vaughan. Clarissa is planning a party in honor of a friend dying of AIDS who has won a literary award for his astonishing poerty. Clarissa is what one would call a modern day Mrs. Dalloway, they even share the same first name. She spends the day flitting around trying to make things perfect for her party, including moving a flower vase 5 times. The hours is a look at how droll life can be if you allow it to be. Each woman will inspire as well depress the soul, and make you question what is important in life.
Rating:  - Work of Extreme Pathos
The Hours by Michael Cunningham is a work of lyrical beauty. The text is comprised of three parts which take place in the month of June: 1923, Virginia Woolf is writing a book (Mrs. Dalloway); 1949, Mrs. Brown is reading Woolf; and present day, Mrs. Vaughan is experiencing a Woolfian period in her life. Cunningham, aside from creating a work of extreme pathos, displays a more than masterful use of intertextual referencing which allows the reader to easily assimilate the correlation between the three storylines. A great book for Woolf fans as well as bibliophiles interested in a good story, Cunningham's Pulitzer-winning novel is a memorable collection of three tales that will remain the in the reader's psyche long after he or she has finished the text.
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