The Hours (novel)

The Hours
AuthorMichael Cunningham
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
November 11, 1998
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages230 (1st edition hardcover)
ISBN0-374-17289-7
OCLC39339842

The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway. Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning, 2002, eponymous film.