Throughout the morning, Laura and her three-year-old son, Richie, make a birthday cake together. She wakes on the morning of her husband's birthday and eventually musters up the energy to get out of bed and face the day. In another plotline, that same Laura Brown is still a young woman living in a sunny, pristine suburb of Los Angeles. In the last hours of the evening, she collects Richard's elderly mother, Laura Brown, and offers her a late-night meal. Rather than throwing a party for Richard, Clarissa now finds herself making arrangements for his funeral. When she comes back later to help him get dressed for the party, things take a tragic turn: Richard slides himself out of a fifth-story window and is killed. A beloved friend of hers is about to be awarded a distinguished literary prize, and Clarissa is arranging a private celebration where he'll be congratulated by supporters and close personal friends.Ĭlarissa's friend Richard Brown is dying from HIV/AIDS-related illnesses, and when Clarissa checks in on him in the late morning, she can tell that he's having one of his bad days. In one plotline, Clarissa Vaughan-a middle-aged book editor living in 1990s New York-gets ready to throw a party. The book goes back and forth between plots, but we're gonna break it down one by one to keep things simple for you. After opening on a melancholy note with Virginia Woolf's willful death by drowning, The Hours branches out into three interconnected plotlines.
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