The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives of three very different women.
The Hours is David Hare''s screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a party for her friends. In extraordinary and ingenious ways, the film shows how a single day - and the novel
Mrs Dalloway - inextricably link the lives of three very different women.
- | Author: David Hare
- | Publisher: Faber & Faber
- | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2003
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780571214761
- | ISBN-10: 0571214762