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I enjoyed this re-engagement with the themes of Mrs. Dalloway. The author has approached Woolf's novel in three ways through three different characters whose perspectives alternate. First, there's Virginia Woolf herself, who is in the process of writing Mrs. Dalloway. Having read her journals and biographies, Cunningham shares her thoughts as she crafted Mrs. Dalloway, including major decisions she made about the events of the novel. This gives the feeling that she may be altering the lives of t
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Interweaving three apparently unconnected stories taking place in different places and times, Cunningham writes in a style very reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's. She is in fact one of the three characters. Only as the various stories gradually unfold do all the allusions to Woolf's character Mrs. Dalloway and to other references to Woolf's work, life, and death slowly begin to fall into place, and the interconnections weren't completely clear to me until the very end. It's a masterful homage to W
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I just read this book won the Pulitizer. Why exactly? I must have missed something.
Aug 22, 2009
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
🎧 Audiobook Review 🎧
I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author himself and I must say that he's got a pretty good voice; easy to listen to. My problem was that I didn't really know what the book was about or I thought I did but I really didn't so I got very confused at the start. And then, I checked the book description and it all made sense in that there were 3 different perspectives in 3 different time settings interconnected through the novel, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Goodreads ...more
I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author himself and I must say that he's got a pretty good voice; easy to listen to. My problem was that I didn't really know what the book was about or I thought I did but I really didn't so I got very confused at the start. And then, I checked the book description and it all made sense in that there were 3 different perspectives in 3 different time settings interconnected through the novel, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Goodreads ...more
Jan 06, 2013
Vanessa Gayle ⚔️ Fangirl Faction
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Carol
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