The book is in-line with the modernist version of the Woolfish 'stream of consciousness' style, characteristic of two prominent members of the Bloomsbury group. I haven't embarked on the voyage of a book that 'Ulysees' by Joyce is, but I am aware of his writing style and look forward to it having read most of Virginia Woolf's works. I absolutely loved the beginning of the book — it caught me off guard; it was so unique and unexpected a way to read about a character, and so poetic in its prose that I ended up highlighting most of the passages. Very much like 'Mrs. Dalloway', the story follows the life of the protagonist, George, over the course of a single day. Unlike 'Mrs. Dalloway', however, it isn't elaborate in the backstories of the other characters in the novel, and doesn't focus too heavily on the other themes underlying the main story of a gay professor in '60s America. There is some bit about the Vietnam War and minorities