The book follows a day in lives of three characters separated by decades in time, yet connected in how they feel in life. They are lost, depressed, overwhelmed by life. One of the characters is Virginia Woolf, and in two other characters one can find an echo of Woolf's book character Mrs. Dalloway. The book is slow, and to understand the true relationship between all three characters one has to wait until the end (so I won't tell it).You've probably seen the movie adaptation of the book, and it follows the book extremely closely. Personally I found the movie more powerful than the book. For example, conversation between Woolf and her husband at the train station is much better done in the movie.
What is the strong point of the book is really the atmosphere of how it is to be each of these characters. We don't gain the whole insight in their personalities, it's more a feeling of how it is to be in their skin on that particular day.
The author was awarded with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1999. The book can be ordered on Amazon.
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