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Simon & Schuster
March 2014
On Sale: March 11, 2014
ISBN: 1476747245
EAN: 9781476747248
Kindle: B00DPM7TB8
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Hailed by The Washington Post as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel
yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is one of the
best-reviewed books of the season: a masterful novel about
perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to
be seen. In a new novel called “searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat’s
crade” 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 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 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 Harriet’s journals, assembled
after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and
scholarship” (San Fransisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple
perspectives as Harriet’s 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 Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A
Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological,
dazzlingly nuanced.”
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