The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

Paperback, 1998

Call number

A FIC C

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Description

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.

Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Shortlist — 2000)
Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1998)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 1999)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1998)
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — 1999)
Stonewall Book Award (Winner — Literature — 1999)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Adult Fiction — 2001)
PEN/Faulkner Award (Finalist — 1999)
Writers Guild of America Award (Winner — Best Adapted Screenplay — 2002)
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