She will not go upstairs, and will not return to her book. From this perfection she tries to escape, taking refuge in a hotel room to get lost in the novel that allows her to endure reality: Laura Brown does not exist, only the perfect wife and mother exist. It is better to die going crazy in London than to evaporate in the air in Richmond. London is far away and in Richmond “the voices are back”: Virginia Woolf fights the demon of insanity. In the name of a subtle force that unites them, each tries to survive their personal battle. Opposite, that of Laura and nostalgic that of Clarissa. Reading it you will land in a suspended time. In a continuous homage to the British writer Virginia Woolf, Cunnigham gives his novel the title The Hours as the first draft of Mrs Dalloway. She seeks a parallel world in which dive into. Laura tries to get lost in the pages of a book, Mrs. On a drunken college night Richard renamed her Mrs. Clarissa Vaughan “has flowers to buy and a party to give”. I do not think two people could have been happier than we were. Her husband Leonard comes back to find a blue envelope addressed to him: It is 1941 and Virginia with a too heavy coat leaves the house. The Hours is the story of three women who live three different eras. A suspended time belongs to the three protagonists of this novel, a small masterpiece by Michael Cunningham: The Hours
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