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    Michael Cunningham's The Hours

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    In five pages this paper examines Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer prize winning The Hours.

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    book, The Hours, Michael Cunningham is one of those people to definitely add, to the next dinner party list! BBcnnghm.doc The Hours by Michael Cunningham  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., March 2001 Introduction Have you ever finished a book and said to yourself - I want to meet that  author. Such an idea seems to be prompted not only by the work itself, but also, by the apparent cognitive process -who could think that up - how  cool! After reading his 1999, Pulitzer award winning book, The Hours, Michael Cunningham is one of those people to definitely add, to the next dinner party list! Story times  three This remarkable story centers around three plot lines: that of Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughn, and Sally Brown. The telling of the tale starts easily enough, but we discover  that we are reading of Virginia Woolf as she is writing the story of "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1923. Clarissa Vaughn in the present, is preparing a birthday party  for a friend, who by chance nick-named her "Mrs Dalloway," years ago, because of her first name, Clarissa. Sally Brown is the young mother of a three year old,  housebound in Los Angeles in 1949. Sally has learned that she is pregnant again, and gives herself the time to read Virginia Woolfs novel Mrs. Dalloway. Oh -  and the friend that Clarissa Vaughn is giving the party for is named Brown. If this sounds as though it is getting complicated, when you read the story, it  all flows together easily, which makes it almost more remarkable. When describing the format of the story it sounds as though it is a puzzle - all of the pieces 

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