or a suggestion that the first novel has caused the events in the second? When someone dies quoting from Virginia Woolf's own suicide note, you think there must be even further options. Dalloway,'' is this a literary parallel, a hint at the limitations of human plots and chances When ''The Hours'' begins to repeat some of the darker events from ''Mrs. There are eerie consequences of this impression. The chief difference, perhaps, is that no one in the first novel can have read the second, whereas almost everyone in the second seems to have read
The woman inīoth novels is called Clarissa, but in the later work Mrs. The unknown celebrity is a prince, a queen or a prime minister in a car she is a movie star in a trailer. The city is London in one case and New York in the other. Woolf, and ''The Hours,'' by Michael Cunningham. But we are quite definitely, recognizably, in two novels: ''Mrs. Where are we? We could, of course, be in any one of a number of days and cities, and the possibility itself is part of the answer to the question. Along with a number of other people, she catches a glimpse of a celebrity, but isn't sure who it is. She bumps into an old acquaintance, remembers moments from her earlier life. She needs to buy flowers for a party she is giving later N a morning in June, a woman in her early 50's steps out into the bright, busy city that she loves. Michael Cunningham Reads From 'The Hours' (November 24, 1998).' At Home at the End of the World' (November 11, 1990).Reviews of Michael Cunningham's Earlier Books
Dalloway' features Virginia Woolf as a character.
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