Hours, The – Michael Cunningham
NF Paperback

For sale: a Rare first media tie-in Paperback edition, later printing of The Hours by Michael Cunningham. First media tie-in Edition unstated, October 2002 Picador. Twelfth Printing with partial number line 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12.

The exterior of this trade paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a straight spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.

The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.

Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.