A virtuoso performance of postmodern daring, iMr. Dallowayi offers a rich augmentation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel.pIt is June 29, 1927NRichard and Clarissa Dalloway's thirtieth anniversary and also a day of historical significance. Richard has arranged a surprise party for his wife. As he leaves their house in Westminster to buy flowers for the party, his thoughts turn to Robert Davies Robbie, a young editor at Faber with whom he has been having an affair off and on for many years. Because of Richard's efforts to contain their relationship, Robbie has exposed their affair in a letter to Clarissa, who tells her husband that she understands And today Richard, despite his misgivings, finds himself on his way to Robbie's house-only to be shaken by the discovery that Robbie is not there.pAs does the Woolf novel, iMr. Dallowayi takes place within a single day, unfolding prismatically with a simultaneity of events Clarissa walks in London and remembers her courtship with Richard their