Siri Hustvedt, Author . Holt $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7170-2
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of exceptional importance that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.WHAT I LOVEDSiri Hustvedt. Holt, $25 (384p) ISBN 0-8050
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Siri Hustvedt, Author . Picador $15 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-42553-1
The title essay of Hustvedt's collection gets at the heart of what is best about these writings: it's a plea not just for the mysteries of sexual longing but for sensual engagement with life. Themes of memory, defining the self, attachment...
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Siri Hustvedt, Author . Holt $25 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7908-1
In her fourth novel (following the acclaimed What I Loved
), Hustvedt continues, with grace and aplomb, her exploration of family connectedness, loss, grief and art. Narrator and New York psychoanalyst Erik Davidsen returns to his Minnesota hometown
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Siri Hustvedt, Author . Holt $23 (213p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9169-4
Novelist Hustvedt (The Sorrows of an American
) has been puzzling for years over the cause of her physical distress, from migraines to convulsions, and in this wide-ranging hodgepodge of technical jargon, research, memory and narrative, she tries to
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Siri Hustvedt, Author Princeton Architectural Press $24.95 (179p) ISBN 978-1-56898-518-3
These wonderful essays capture Hustvedt's thoughtful, intensely personal and aesthetically charged responses to art. At first, Hustvedt's choice of artists seems random or disjointed, but it becomes apparent that her work is driven by a deeper logic
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Siri Hustvedt, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4920-6
Set in a small Minnesota town whose entire population appears to consist of slightly ominous eccentrics, Hustvedt's second novel (after 1992's The Blindfold) presents a coming of age story with Kafka-esque trappings and a mystery veneer. Lily Dahl,...
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Siri Hustvedt, Picador, $14 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-57060-6
A theatrically manic poet turns heartbreak into an intellectual endeavor in Hustvedt's intellectually spry latest (after The Sorrows of an American). Fresh out of the hospital at age 55 following a breakdown brought on by her husband's departure for
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Siri Hustvedt. Picador, $18 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-00952-4
Novelist and essayist Hustvedt (Mysteries of the Rectangle) gathers 32 pieces (most previously published), written over the past six years, that she says are linked by an abiding curiosity about “what it means to be human.” A lifelong migraine...
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Siri Hustvedt. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4723-1
Art isn’t easy, and according to Hustvedt (What I Loved), the art market can be especially rough on women who are over 40, overweight, and overtly intellectual, which is why the novel’s protagonist, Harriet “Harry” Burden, a frustrated artist and...
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Siri Hustvedt. Simon & Schuster, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4109-6
In this erudite collection, novelist Hustvedt (The Blazing World) explores philosophical questions central to the humanities using research from other disciplines, such as biology, feminist theory, and neuroscience. The questions relate to the self,
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Siri Hustvedt. Simon & Schuster, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0283-8
This provocative, experimental novel from Hustvedt (The Blazing World) joins several narratives to illustrate the roles of memory and perspective in making sense of a life. A version of the author, called S.H. and nicknamed Minnesota by her friends...
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Siri Hustvedt. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-982176-39-6
Novelist Hustvedt (Memories of the Future) delves into the lives of those who came before her—people related by blood or purely by her own fascination—to make profound arguments about memory, art, gender, and family in this stunning collection. In “T
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