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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays & Letters
As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital ...Show more
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays & Letters
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspec ...Show more
Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own ...Show more
Living Thinking Looking by Hustvedt Siri
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Category: Essays & Letters
The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting ("Mysteries of the Rectangle") as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder ("The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves"). She ...Show more
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: General
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year ...Show more
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays & Letters
'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longliste ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.'A wonderful essayist . . . Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive ...Show more
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: General | 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 Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: General
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the ...Show more
The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: General
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
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Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
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