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Query: A dead-on evocation of the intertwined lives of three women

This book moved me to tears more than once. The power of this author's writing comes through not only in his brilliant ending but in his understanding of the hearts and souls of the novel's three women - Laura Brown, Clarissa Dalloway, and the inimitable Virginia Woolf herself. At times I had to stop reading because I felt as if Michael Cunningham's grasp of these womens' souls was so true that it was almost eery. He writes elliptically of the shadow lives that many of us feel are out there - the lives we might be living had we not answered that one phone call, chosen that certain dress, turned down that street instead of this one. He is one of the few writers I trust completely; he puts his own soul on the line in his graceful, beautiful fiction and, consequently, he cuts to the heart of what it means to be human.