جزییات کتاب
رمان با بهره گیری از دیگر زندگینامه ها، شخصیت «ویرجینیا وولف» نویسنده ی بزرگ انگلیسی را بازسازی و زنده میکند، داستان از زبان سه زن تعریف میشود، یکی از زنان همان نویسنده ی بزرگ است و دو دیگر ساختگی هستند.
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 HareThe 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. The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
درباره نویسنده
مایکل کانینگهام (به انگلیسی: Michael Cunningham) نویسنده آمریکایی که اشتهارش بیشتر به خاطر رمان ساعتها است که در سال ۱۹۹۹ دو جایزه پولیتزر و جایزه پن/فاکنر را برد.