Jean M. reviewed on 3/16/2007 + 2 more book reviews

Passionate, profound and deeply moving, The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughn, who one New York morning goes about palnning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950's Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb, and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. by the end fo the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in and act of subtle and hounting grace, demonstrating Michael Cunningham's deep empathy for his characters as well as the extrordinary resonance of his prose.

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