THE HOURS Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. His short story "White Angel" was later used as a chapter in his novel A Home at the End of the World. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin.The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in U.S. writing, and his 2010 novel, By Nightfall, was also well received by U.S. Critics. Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, Laws for Creations, and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel Evening. Although Cunningham is gay and was in a long-term domestic partnership with psychoanalyst Ken Corbett, he dislikes being referred to as a gay writer, according to a PlanetOut article. While he often writes about gay people, he does not "want the gay aspects of [his] books to be perceived as their single, primary characteristic.
Selected Works Novels (1984) Golden States (1990) A Home at the End of the World (1995) Flesh and Blood (1998) The Hours (2005) Specimen Days (2010) By Nightfall (2014)The Snow Queen
The hours The Hours is a 1998 novel, that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel Mrs. Dalloway. Michael Cunningham took the novel's title, The Hours, from the original working title that Virginia Woolf used for Mrs. Dalloway.
Reviews · “Cunningham gives you every chance to hear his echoes of
Woolf's style: the whimsical similes, the rueful parentheses, the luminous circumstantial detail. And the narrative method is a homage to Woolf's novel. ” (The Guardian) ·
“Cunningham cleverly captures the freedom of association in
the minds of his characters in a way that is strikingly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's own experimentation. His greatest stumbling-block, though, is his failure to convey the fragility and delicacy of Woolf's creative impulse.” (Independent)
Interesting links · Official Website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180714111136/http:// www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com/ · Books: A modern Clarissa plans a party:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-a-modern-clarissaplans-a-party-1074486.html · Reading Guide:
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