Every Moment (original Movie of the Same Name)
About This Novel
The book won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Faulkner Award. The film of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, and Nicole Kidman won the Oscar for Best Actress for the film. Virginia Woolf, affected by severe schizophrenia, was conceiving her new novel "Mrs. Dalloway"; Clarissa, a publishing editor in New York in the 1990s, was called "Mrs. Dalloway" by the poet friend Thomas. She held a party for Thomas, but witnessed Thomas commit suicide by jumping off the building that night; Mrs. Brown, a housewife living in California after World War II, the reader of "Mrs. Dalloway" longed to get rid of her boring life. The day of three women is composed into a work about human loss, despair, fear, longing and love. Cunningham relies on the subtle connections between the three people to juxtapose the three eras in the same time dimension, and thinks about the value of women and the nature of life through parallel narratives.
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