The Hours (SIGNED FIRST PRINTING)

Cunningham, Michael

ISBN 10: 0374172897 / ISBN 13: 9780374172893

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1998

About this Item

First Edition (stated) First Printing in original $22.00-priced dust jacket SIGNED by author Michael Cunningham direct to title page without inscription, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, mild foxing to page block edges, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 230pp.

Seller Inventory # 33775

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hours (SIGNED FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374172897
• ISBN 13: 9780374172893
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction / Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood.

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 Samuel, 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.

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.

 

The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

About the Author

Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World (Picador) and Flesh and Blood. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. The Hours was a New York Times Bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly.