The Hours

Resumen del libro

. In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel.

A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway'. 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. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women.

Biografía del autor

Michael Cunningham (Cincinati, 1952) es autor de, entre otras novelas, la aclamada Las horas (ganadora del Premio Pulitzer 1999 y del Pen Faulkner Award): llevada al cine en 2002 con gran éxito, contó con tres grandes actrices (Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore y Nicole Kidman) y mereció nueve Oscar.