The Hours

Ein Tag im Leben von drei ganz verschiedenen Frauen: Clarissa Vaughan im New York der neunziger Jahre, die einst von ihrem Jugendfreund den Spitznamen Mrs. Dalloway bekommen hat. Laura Brown, Hausfrau in Los Angeles im Jahre 1949, die "Mrs. Dalloway" liest. Und Virginia Woolf in Richmond im Jahre 1923, die mit dem ersten Satz ihres Romans "Mrs. Dalloway" kämpft. Drei Frauen, die die Suche nach Liebe und Freundschaft, nach Anerkennung und Lebensglück über die Zeiten verbindet.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.

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.