The Blindfold - Brossura

Hustvedt, Siri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340579021 ISBN 13: 9780340579022

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1993

Riassunto

Iris Vegan is a graduate student, living alone and impoverished in New York City. In the course of the novel, she encounters four strong characters, each of whom fascinates and in some way subordinates her to alter the shape of her identity.

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Descrizione del libro:

The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller WHAT I LOVED.

L'autore:

Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, and four collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking, as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves.

Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities.
She delivered the Schelling Lecture in Aesthetics in Munich in 2010, the Freud Lecture in Vienna in 2011 and the opening keynote at the conference to mark Kierkegaard's 200th anniversary in Copenhagen in 2013, while her latest honorary doctorate is from the University of Gutenburg in Germany. She is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical School and has written on art for the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0340579021
• ISBN 13: 9780340579022
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208