When I was between assignments, which was all too frequent, I would read book after book usually I would be in the middle of at least three at any one time.
It made me shiver somewhere in the core of me.
Her lips mere millimeters away from my ear. “I hear you are on a reading binge.” She’d leaned in close, as she had a tendency to do with me. It was Charlotte who pressed this book upon me.
It’s about the hours right? Those few precious hours over a lifetime when we feel we have a chance to do something special, to prove that we can do something that will forever immortalize us as someone exceptional. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills more die by accident and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we’ve very fortunate, by time itself.” We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep-it’s as simple and ordinary as that. Passionate, profound and deeply moving, The Hours is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.”We throw our parties we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. The narrative of Woolf 's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Richard, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers and family. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham-widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation-draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf 's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Richard, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend.
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