Meditative and profoundly moving, the work can be read as proto-feminist musing, post-AIDS fable, and disheartening commentary on how little has changed in the last century. But it is more than tour de force or homage to Woolf. Each heroine reflects, dreams, yearns, and tries to cope and carry on in her own way each considers the possibility of relief and release brought by death.Ĭunningham daisy-chains the three stories and the lives of the three protagonists, planting enough Easter eggs to delight any post-modern Taylor Swifty. Cunningham's complexity comes from beautifully overlaying and intertwining three separate stories from three periods and three locations, each focused on the inner life of a woman struggling against the strictures of her existence. Woolf's century-old masterwork scrolls out as one long inner narrative, with no chapter breaks and sometimes barely marked switches from one character's consciousness to another's. His prose is simpler, his sentences often shorter and clearer than Woolf's, his narrative helpfully divided into short chapters with the speakers clearly indicated. Suffice it to say that it is both simpler and more complex than Woolf's original. Two decades after it won the Pulitzer, Michael Cunningham's outstanding work needs neither introduction nor summary.
Now all of those variants are rolling around in my head in a delicious brew.
Dalloway, before attending a broadcast of the opera. In short order my wife and I read the book aloud, watched the acclaimed film, and went back to the source to read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Having trouble getting yourself the book for any reason? Send our Assistant Producer Marc an e-mail over at and we’ll get a free copy into your hands.It took my son's invitation to the Met Opera debut of a new work based on this book to get me to read it. Why don’t you pop on over to the lovey new queer book shop PaperxClips and pick up a copy? Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.” The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. “In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel.
Continuing on with Outburst Book Group facilitated by local poet Mícheál McCann, The next book we’ll be reading is The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
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