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A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A collection of essays, which addresses many of the themes explored in the author's novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, it focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James an ...Show more
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'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
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$39.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
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