How to Read Michael Cunningham's The Hours
Michael Cunningham\u2019s 1998 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Hours, tells the intertwined stories of three 20th-century women: the modernist author Virginia Woolf, in London; the midcentury housewife Laura Brown, in Los Angeles; and the late-90s literary editor and hostess Clarissa Vaughan, in New York City. Although Clarissa imagines an alternate \u201clife as potent and dangerous as literature itself,\u201d ultimately she reconciles herself to \u201can hour here or there when our lives \u2026 burst open and give us everything we\u2019ve ever imagined.\u201d
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