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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and adapted into the Golden Globe-winning film. New York, the end of the 20th century: Clarissa Vaughan, a successful book editor, is planning a party for her dear friend, a poet with AIDS who has just won a major literary prize. Los Angeles, 1949: Laura Brown, a frustrated housewife, is preparing for her husband's birthday but instead shuts herself in a hotel room to read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. London, 1923: Virginia Woolf wakes from a dream that will lead her to write Mrs Dalloway.
Michael Cunningham brings together the writer, her heroine and her reader in a gripping interweaving of times whose three strands begin to echo one another. A profound, complex and powerful novel about loneliness, the longing for love and intimacy, and our capacity, if only for a single day, to make peace with life.
This is the Hebrew edition of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, translated by Karmit Guy.