Gruppo di lettura

THE HOURS

In the 1920s in Richmond, a suburb of London, Virginia Woolf is searching for inspiration for her new novel, lovingly assisted by her husband who tries to tame her restless spirit. 

In the 1940s, in Los Angeles, Laura Brown is a young mother who seeks an escape from her domestic routine in the pages of Mrs. Dalloway. 

In the 1990s in New York, Clarissa Vaughn, nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway, leaves her apartment in Greenwich Village to buy flowers for Richard, a poet friend who is battling the malaise of the decade.

Three women who seem to have nothing in common, except for Virginia Woolf's novel, yet are connected by a thin thread that binds their stories across different places and times, tracing those invisible paths through which literature crosses our lives and gives them a new meaning.

Published in 1998, the novel won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the 2000 Grinzane Cavour Award for Foreign Narrative. It inspired the film of the same name by Stephen Daldry, starring Nicole Kidman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep.