Publication
Picador (2000), Edition: 1st Thus., 240 pages
Collections
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)
Prix Maurice-Edgar Coindreau (2000)
Writers Guild of America Award (Winner — Best Adapted Screenplay — 2002)
Grinzane Cavour Prize (2000)
Notable Books List (2000)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: Two main characters (a cisgender woman and a cisgender man) have/have had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Publisher's Summary: ...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 Samuel, 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.