Product Description
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair which will be repackaged as part of Perennial's 2008 fiction promotion. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunningham's exquisite and deeply moving new novel, which takes Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness.Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham's elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.

What a lovely, lovely surprise! Thak you so much sobergirl!

I sincerely loved this book! The three different stories are perfectly woven together. Thank you again for sending it to me, sobergirl. I also by the way think it made a splendid movie.

For the first time I have a hard time parting with a bookcrossing book so I will arrange a bookring.

It's easy really:

1. I will try to see to that the postage will be as low as possible for everyone.
2. Register the book when you get it and try to read it within a month (or tell us if you need more time so everybody knows that the book is not lost).
3. PM the next participant for his/her address after checking the list in the link below again (as it may change).
4. Make a release note when sending... And the book travels on.

Participants:

-babelfisk
-Zimort Norway/intl
-pulcherrima Denmark/Eu (earliest as no 3)
-madmegzy UK/Eu
-Simson-Shilitoe France/Eu
-MKtiny UK/intl
-ToXiCKiTTiKiSS US/US
-TwiggySC1973 US /pref US but intl if reqd
-Bookwurm72 US/pref US but intl if reqd
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- you? Don't hesitate to PM me!

EDIT oct 2012: This is now a ray instead of a ring. I have contacted the person who has it.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

The book starts its journey. Safe traveling!

The book arrived safely yesterday. I'll start reading as soon as I can.

A wonderful book. I'm usually a fast reader but this book I had to read slowly - partly because I didn't want to miss anything and partly because of the beautiful language.
Thanks, Vilda, for sharing!

Now I'll send it on to Zimort.

Finally it's on it's way!

Edit: I sent it today, 8/6!

Thank you. It came in the mail today. I will start reading soon.

I went to the post-office today and mailed this to the next on the list, who is in Denmark.

Received the book today. Looking forward to reading it and will pass it on to the next person on the list as soon as I have.

I have begun reading the book and is already very captured by it. Will pm next person on the list for address.

First of all. The book is with me and I'm very sorry for the delay.
I really enjoyed the book and took my time reading it, but for the past month I've had so many things to do and sending the book has been postponed once to many.

Thank you Vilda for letting me be a part of the history of this book, it was a great experience. I already have madmegzy's address and will bring the book to the post office today.

Will travel to the next person on the list.

The book has been sent to madmegzy, but since it hasn't been journalled send a PM and I got this answer:
"I have received "The Hours" - unfortunately my sister has tidied my books away whilst i was in France recently and I cannot find The Hours (hoping it hasn't been thrown out by accident!), which is why I haven't journalled it yet. As soon as I find it I will journal to say I have received it!"

Says will look for it a journal as soon as possible.

found book eventually, just realised i hadn't journalled it yet. sorry for huge delay will read asap - won't be able to post for couple of weeks as away in france but will do as soon as i get back.

The book arrived safely in today`s mail.

At the moment I am reading "Tom`s Midnight Garden" by Philippa Pearce, a bookring started by lunacia. So I hope to start with "The Hours" soon.

Thank you "madmegzy" for posting.

Thank you "Vilda" for sharing.

It took me a while to get into this one. But frankly I am tired of this kind of "seamless masterpiece" which is so seamless that none of the characters were ever developed to the greatest extent possible. I have read Mrs. Dalloway, I know Virginia W., but I was disappointed in this Pulitzer Price winner. I expected more.

That was not really my cup of tea.

Posting to "MKtiny" as soon as I get an address.

This book will be followed by "The Beaufort Diaries".

The book is now travelling to the UK. Happy journey!

Arrived this morning. This will be the next book I read, so hopefully I will not have it for too long.

Beautifully written, moving and haunting. The fallibilities of the characters are captured with incredible poignancy. Thanks for sharing Vilda and Sogergirl.

On its way to ToXiCKiTTiKiSS.

I received it, and I will read it as soon as I can. :)

Received in the mail today-I'm sure this will be my first book finished in 2012!

I have to start off by saying I've never read anything by Ms. Woolf. And from this book I'm tempted to read her biography. How hard of a life it must have been feeling and or needing to accomplish something as hard as writing a novel. To some authors I'm sure it's just an every day thing to crank the pages out, but to have to deal with your alter ego.....shew that's a mess.

I also must say that I think you must be of sound mind and a non-depressed person to read this book, because in some places it just got me down. Way down too. The hours are just passing us by. Seriously, I'm freaking 38 and can't tell you where the time has gone. Why is it as adults the time flies by but when we're children the phrase: It will take till Christmas to get here and that means a long time? When we as adults know it's around the corner? I'm glad I joined up for this ring and totally forgot about being on it.
Now off to the next person!