The Hours
Context
Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1952 and grew up in Pasadena, California. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in English Literature, Cunningham received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first novel, Golden States, appeared in 1984 to good reviews, though Cunningham has since dismissed the book in interviews. His second novel, A Home at the End of the World (1990), details the intertwined relationships between two boyhood friends and the way they cobble together a family that crosses boundaries of age, blood relationships, and sexual identity. The love triangle plot between a gay man, a straight man, and a straight woman reappears in different configurations in the love triangles that reoccur throughout The Hours. Cunningham’s third novel, Flesh and Blood (1995), moved away from the intimate depictions of closely knit characters that characterize Cunningham’s earlier works. Flesh and......
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