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The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse t ...Show more
The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged ...Show more
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt's riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small town of Webster, Minnesota, Lily's life revolves around the Ideal Café. She lives above the café in a rent ...Show more
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion -- or something else entirely?In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychia ...Show more
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
By the bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED, an account of her search for the key to her mysterious nervous disorder and a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body - 'provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth' Oliver Sacks.
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from a woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York City, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man ...Show more
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Sorrows of an Americanis a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another 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 impl ...Show more
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
$32.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
""And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of" The Awful Truth"? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask ...Show more
The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks ...Show more
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in th ...Show more