Michael Cunningham's "The Hours"

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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes Michael Cunningham's book "The Hours". It explains that the book is about the nature of mortality, literature, Virginia Woolf's life, and the connections between life and one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works, "Mrs. Dalloway".

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"In The Hours, housewife Laura Brown simply and ineffectually bakes a cake. Clarissa Vaughan buys flowers. But these events are imbued with transcendence significance, simply by showing how these characters are interconnected across the ages-even across the bounds of the fiction/nonfiction divide of literature. When things are connected, everything becomes significant. By highlighting simple events, like buying objects for a party, such events become sympathetic and significant to an apparently disconnected viewer or reader."

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