Michael Cunningham's The Hours: A Reader's Guide

Continuum Contemporaries

by Tory Young

This is an excellent guide to 'The Hours'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful.

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2003

About the author

Tory Young is an Associate Professor of English Literature at ARU, Cambridge. She teaches modernism and contemporary fiction, regularly interviews authors at Waterstones, and runs A Life Written, a life-writing for people aged 70+ with the National Centre for Writing.

Reviews

[Ivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very usefull book. I used it together with other books when writing my bachelor thesis on Michael Cunningham's novels two years ago. Definitely worth your time if you are interested in Cunningham.

[Eric Peterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant -- some will complain that "nothing happens," but the whole thing was so ... gorgeous. I loved reading it and didn't want it to end.