![]() In 1999, The Hours won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ![]() As the historical Woolf did, Cunningham explores themes of marginalized sexual orientations, mental illness, suicide, and existential crisis. Dalloway and Clarissa Vaughan, a 52-year-old publisher in 1990s New York City who yearns for a relationship like Woolf and her husband had. Dalloway over the course of one June day in each of their lives: a fictional Virginia Woolf in the suburbs of London as she starts her novel in 1923 a housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles who escapes her unhappy life by reading Mrs. ![]() The story follows three different women, in three different decades, affected by Mrs. Mimicking Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness narrative style, Cunningham re-situates her characters and themes within a modern context, making them his own. Dalloway (of which the working title was “The Hours”). ![]() It is an homage to Virginia Woolf’s 1923 novel Mrs. The Hours is a 1998 novel by the American author Michael Cunningham. ![]()
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