"Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are."

In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house for friends and neighbors, she is flooded with remembrances of the past--the passionate loves of her carefree youth, her practical choice of husband, and the approach and retreat of war. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

From the introspective Clarissa, to the lover who never fully recovered from her rejection, to a war-ravaged stranger in the park, the characters and scope of Mrs. Dalloway reshape our sense of ordinary life making it one of the most "moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century" (Michael Cunningham).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/24/1990
ISBN: 9780156628709
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: USA Today 03/13/2003 pg. 1
Newsweek 08/04/2008 pg. 9
Newsweek 10/20/2008 pg. 14
Entertainment Weekly 01/22/2016 pg. 74

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 74683 / Mrs. Dalloway
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11