The Blindfold - Brossura

Hustvedt, Siri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 031242275X ISBN 13: 9780312422752

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2003

Riassunto

As Iris Vegan, a confused young graduate student from the Midwest, struggles to define herself, she becomes fascinated with four New York City characters--a photographer, an urban recluse, an old woman, and a professor--who try to alter the shape of her identity. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Siri Hustvedt is the author of The Enchantment of Lily Dahl and What I Loved. The Blindfold is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

Product Description:

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 to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris’ s teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called "The Brutal Boy," she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 031242275X
• ISBN 13: 9780312422752
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224