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Article: The Woolf pack: Michael Cunningham's The Hours put the spotlight on one Virginia Woolf novel, but don't overlook the others. .
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THESE DAYS, IT SEEMS, THE ANSWER to Edward Albee's question is: No one--no one's afraid of Virginia Woolf. Her fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is being snapped up by more readers than at any time since it was published three-quarters of a century ago. This is largely due to the attention paid to Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel The Hours and its Oscar-winning film adaptation. An exquisite riff on Woolf's novel, Cunningham's book offers stories of three women at three times, connected, in one way or another, by Mrs. Dalloway.
"Virginia Woolf is, purely and simply, one of the most important writers in the English language," Cunningham says, ...