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Also by Siri Hustvedt:

Memories of the Future, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
Memories of the Future, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Blazing World, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Shaking Woman Or A History Of My Nerves, March 2010
Hardcover
The Sorrows of an American, April 2008
Hardcover
The Blindfold: A Novel, September 2003
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THE BLAZING WORLD
By: Siri Hustvedt

Simon & Schuster
March 2014
On Sale: March 11, 2014
ISBN: 1476747245
EAN: 9781476747248
Kindle: B00DPM7TB8
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction

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.”