Siri Hustvedt
Author
Language
English
Description
In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt's riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small town of Webster, Minnesota, Lily's life revolves around the Ideal Café. She lives above the café in a rented room and works there as a waitress. This is the stage Hustvedt sets for a bizarre cast of characters who frequent the café and populate Lily's...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Sorrows of an American is 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 implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its...
Author
Language
English
Description
Feminist philosophy and family memoir merge in this new essay collection from award-winning author Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted-between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork-which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.
Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in The Literary Review (UK), Siri Hustvedt displays...
5) Damals
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Die junge S. H., Minnesota genannt, bezieht 1979 ein heruntergekommenes Zimmer in New York. Sie kommt direkt aus der Provinz, und als angehende Schriftstellerin genießt sie den Schmutz wie den Glanz der neuen Stadt. Alles saugt sie begierig auf. So auch, durch die papierdünnen Wände, die Monologe und klagenden Gesänge ihrer Nachbarin: "Lucy Brite" steht auf dem Klingelschild. Von Misshandlung ist die Rede, von Kindstod, ja von Mord. Lucy wird...
Author
Language
English
Description
A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World.
A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As S.H. listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, she carefully transcribes the woman's bizarre...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen.
The internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant...
Author
Language
English
Description
The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In “On the Couch,” the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted...
