{"product_id":"the-hours-mrs-dalloway-9781250852670","title":"The Hours \/ Mrs. Dalloway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel together with Woolf's masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003eat fifteen--as he writes, \"I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.\" With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Cunningham \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several novels, including\u003ci\u003e A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003e Specimen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Queen\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as\u003ci\u003e A Wild Swan and Other Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short fiction. He lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1941) was a novelist, cultural critic, and publisher, and the author of such groundbreaking novels as \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e. Woolf was one of the most important and innovative writers of the twentieth century, and her essays include the canonical feminist text \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593302348050,"sku":"9781250852670","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6e72908-5551-414a-82eb-9ff83d126686.jpg?v=1732114800","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hours-mrs-dalloway-9781250852670","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}