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Utgitt:
1994
Forlag: Sceptre
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN: 9780340581230
Utgave: 2. utg.
Format: 20 x 13 cm
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«'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche...The quality and spareness of her prose, the intensity of her imagination, are at work on one of the most macabre terrains of the 20th century - New York'»
«A harsh, dark, dangerous piece of prose...Sharply readable, quirky and entertaining in its witty observation of student and city life, but the whole resonates with shocking force»
«A work of dizzying intensity ... an intriguing and sure-handed debut by a writer of eloquent and vivid disposition»
«'Sexy without being steamy, intelligent without being complicated'»
«Gripping...A complex exploration of the nature of the self, executed in polished and immediate prose»
«It has vivid and compelling characters; it is scary, sinister and readable ... a very smart novel»
«Brilliant...A dark, mesmerising debut»
Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.