Cunningham, Michael

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.

"A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham"--Provided by publisher.

"A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks will help him compose a ballad for hisseriously ill wife"--Provided by publisher.

New York City serves as the setting for a three-part novel featuring a recurring trio of characters, struggling with issues of love and loss, fear, violence, and poetry during the Industrial Revolution, the early twenty-first century, and 150 years into the future.

Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.

Peter and Rebecca Harris have settled into a comfortable mid-life--with their careers as an art dealer and editor, respectively, blossoming and their daughter in college--until Rebecca's brother with a history of drug problems shows up and makes Peter question his life.

New York City serves as the setting for a three-part novel featuring a recurring trio of characters, struggling with issues of love and loss, fear, violence, and poetry during the Industrial Revolution, the early twenty-first century, and 150 years into the future.

Two young men who have been friends since they were teenagers find a solidity and solidarity together in New York and embark on a project of creating a new kind of family.

Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.