Siri Hustvedt
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling down a rabbit's hole of personal and psychological intrigue....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From international bestseller and Booker Prize-nominee Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, Then tells the indelible story of a young Midwestern woman's fixation with her mysterious neighbor over the course of a threadbare year in 1970s New York" --
1970s, New York City. S.H., aka 'Minnesota' listens to Lucy through the thin walls of their building, and transcribes her neighbor's bizarre and increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy reflects the author's explorations into the workings of human perception and how they are reflected by gender bias, the mind-body challenge, and neurological disorders.
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