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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED

'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed debut ' Don DeLillo

'Brilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut' Independent on Sunday

'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche' Daily Telegraph

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

'Attests to Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice . . . the announcement of a talented writer's arrival' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times


PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie

'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks

'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times

'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 05/05/1994
    ISBN13: 9780340581230, 978-0340581230
    ISBN10: 0340581239

    Number of Pages: 224

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED

    'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed debut ' Don DeLillo

    'Brilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut' Independent on Sunday

    'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche' Daily Telegraph

    Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

    'Attests to Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice . . . the announcement of a talented writer's arrival' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times


    PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

    'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie

    'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks

    'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times

    'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post

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