Sinopse: Review Praise for The Summer Without Men “Exhuberant…Hustvedt is a fearless writer…She’s managed not to shrink the truth of women’s lives, without relinquishing love for men.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“Engaging…a fragmented meditation on identity, abandonment, and loss….Hustvedt manages to move seamlessly between Blake and Rilke to Kirekegaard and Hegel while maintaining a forward motion to this fluid narrative…Satisfying.” (Boston Globe)“Elegant… a smart and surprisingly amusing meditation on love, friendship and sexual politics.” (The Miami Herald)“An investigation into romantic comedy, both the classic Hollywood version―‘love as verbal war’―and Jane Austen’s Persuasion… Among the novel’s pleasures are its analysis of gender…and the character of Mia herself, who comes across as honest, witty and empathetic.” (New York Times Book Review)“This brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis... The noisy chorus in Mia’s head has an appealing way of getting inside the reader’s too.” (Wall Street Journal)“Breathtaking… hilarious… What a joy it is to see Hustvedt have such mordant fun in this saucy and scathing novel about men and women, selfishness and generosity…. Hustvedt has created a companionable and mischievous narrator to cherish, a healthy-minded woman of high intellect, blazing humor, and boundless compassion.” (Booklist "starred review")“Intellectually spry… An adroit take on love, men and women, and girls and women.” (Publishers Weekly)“[A] 21st century riff on the 19th-century Reader-I-married-him school of quiet insurgent women’s fiction… Tart comments on male vs. female styles of writing-and reading-novels are a delight… A smart, sassy reflection on the varieties of female experience.” (Kirkus Reviews)Praise for What I Loved “Superb. . .What I Loved is a rare thing, a page turner written at full intellectual stretch, serious but witty, large-minded and morally engaged.” (New York Times Book Review)“So richly imagined is the art in her book that it serves not just to illuminate hidden emotions but also as a subject in itself. . .A wrenching portrait of parental grief, then a psychological thriller, and finally a meditation on the perspective of memory.” (Vogue) Product Description Pub Date: 2013-11-29 Language: English 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 to believe she is the woman behind the men. Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burdens death. the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks. reviews and articles. as well as testimonies from her children. her lover. a dear friend. and others more distantly connected to her Each account is different. however. and the mysteries multiply One thing is clear:.. Burdens involvement with the last of her masks turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the mans bizarre death. This is a poly... About the Author Siri Hustvedtis the internationally acclaimed author of five novels, The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, The Blindfold, and The Summer Without Men, as well as a growing body of nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn.
