Title: an interesting phenomenon
Product review: I read in the NY Times that the author proposed a boxed set, his book and "Mrs. Dalloway." I think this is a bad idea, for the following reason. I, who had never been able to stomach Virginia Woolf as a young man, read "Mrs. Dalloway" first. I found it profound, amusing, wonderful, and I revised my opinion of Woolf utterly. Turning to "The Hours," I felt it was an interesting failure, drowned, as it were, in the light shimmering in my mind from Mrs. Woolf's incandescent prose. I imagine the Pulizer committee made up of English professors who, having failed to persuade students to appreciate Woolf, were overcome by the happy memories of their long ago love affair with "Mrs. Dalloway." In the end I found the two books about as successful as the parties each bring us to. Then again, my profound thanks to Mr. Cunningham for sending me to Ms. Woolf.
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