Memories of the future, Hustvedt, Siri

Автор: Hustvedt Siri
Название: What I Loved
ISBN: 0312421192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312421199
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 12870.00 T
Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: "What I Loved "begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.
The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, "What I Loved "is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

Автор: Hustvedt Siri
Название: The Blazing World
ISBN: 1476747245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476747248
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 13030.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Named one of the New York Times Book Reviews 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weeklys Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globes Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraphs Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. Louis Post Dispatchs Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeeds Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicles Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.coms Best of 2014 Fiction

Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction

Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize

Hailed by The Washington Post as Siri Hustvedts best novel yet, an electrifying work, The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one womans struggle to be seen.

In a new novel called searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cats cradle on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, 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 Yorks 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 reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death.

An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriets journals, assembled after her death, this glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriets critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in Slate, Katie Roiphe declared it a spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex or Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.

Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing (NPR), Hustvedts new novel is Blazing indeed:...with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity(Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.