![]() The Hours weaves together the stories of three women – Laura Brown, an American housewife who is reading Mrs. It doesn’t claim or conceal the older piece of music, but it takes that music and turns it into something else.” Cunningham says, “I think it’s like the way a jazz musician might do a riff on an older established piece of music. Dalloway and a wholly new work on its own. The Hours is not a rewriting of her 1935 novel per se, but a reimagining, a fractured retelling, both a sequel of sorts to Mrs. Dalloway, which I discussed in last week’s StoryWeb episode. And it felt like something for me to write about very much the way you might write a novel based on the first time you fell in love.Ĭunningham’s 1998 novel, The Hours, is a kind of homage to and deep exploration of Mrs. It stayed with me in a way no other book ever has. ![]() ![]() I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ![]() And of course, the great American playwright Edward Albee famously asked Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Īmerican novelist Michael Cunningham is clearly not afraid of Virginia Woolf. ![]() You can buy a Barnes and Noble canvas bag featuring Woolf’s face, and the British National Portrait Gallery sells thousands of Woolf postcards a month. In her fascinating book Virginia Woolf Icon, Brenda Silver examines all the ways Woolf has become a potent international symbol. ![]()
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