The Hours - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Michael Cunningham Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her... more » husband in a London suburb and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace, demonstrating Michael Cunningham’s deep empathy for his characters as well as the extraordinary resonance of his language.
Winner of the Pulitzer prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and nominated for 9 Academy Awards.
Unabridged: 6 Compact Discs, Running Time: 6 hours, Narrator: Michael Cunningham (author)« less
I could not get interested in this book. I'm not sure if it was the narrator's monotone or the story itself that turned me off, but I listened to the first disc and gave up.