Böcker av Siri Hustvedt

Hon är en åldrande författare som minns tillbaka till den tid då hon anlände till New York. Året var 1978. Hon kom från landet, Minnesota, hade inga pengar - men önskade inget hellre än att få uppleva den stora stadens magi, litteraturen, konstnär...

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Konsthistorikern Leo Hertzberg upptäcker en fantastisk målning av en okänd konstnär på ett galleri i New York. Han köper tavlan och spårar upp dess skapare, Bill Weschler. Detta blir inledningen till en livslång vänskap. Leos berättelse, som spänn...

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A 62-year-old writer - initials S.H. - discovers the journal she wrote during her first year in New York in 1978/9 and looks back on her 23-year-old self with amusement and anger. Reproducing extracts from it, which include parts of the novel she'...

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"En tid efter det att han hade yttrat ordet paus blev jag galen och hamnade på sjukhus." När Mia Fredricksens make Boris meddelar att han behöver tid för sig själv rasar hennes tillvaro samman. I själva verket har han förälskat sig i en ...

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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019. As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt i...

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Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered w...

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While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely? In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book,...

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Konstnärinnan Harriet Burden känner uppgivenhet inför att ständigt förbises av New Yorks konstnärselit. Då bestämmer hon sig för att genomföra ett experiment: hon döljer sin identitet bakom tre påhittade manliga konstnärsalias. Men när hon till si...

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In this unique neurological memoir, Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and ...

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Lily Dahl bor ensam kvar i småstaden Webster i Minnesota sedan hennes pensionerade föräldrar har flyttat till Florida. 19-åriga Lily har skådespelardrömmar, men försörjer sig som servitris på Ideal Café. Rakt över gatan från huset där Lily bor lig...

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From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

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REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, an...

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In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of th...

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From the internationally bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory trade paperback original about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.

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From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided...

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From the author of the international bestseller "What I Loved, " a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hu...

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After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is draw...

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I "Leva, tänka, titta" har Siri Hustvedt samlat sina bästa essäer från de senaste åren, bland annat om författare och konstnärer som Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, Stig Dagerman, Inger Christensen och Francisco de Goya. Boken är indelad i tre ...

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Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erot...

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A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York h...

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Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered w...

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In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of th...

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Hon är en åldrande författare som minns tillbaka till den tid då hon anlände till New York. Året var 1978. Hon kom från landet, Minnesota, hade inga pengar - men önskade inget hellre än att få uppleva den stora stadens magi, litteraturen, konstnär...

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Prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt turns her brilliant and critical eye toward the metaphysical issues of neuropsychology in this lauded, standalone volume. Originally published in her collection A Woman Looking at Men Look...

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From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their succ...

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Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman.Do you:a) assume it's a passing affair and play alongb) angrily declare the marriage overc) crack upd) retreat ...

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Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erot...

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My sister called it 'the year of secrets,' but when I look back on it now, I've come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn't. 'It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while...

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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019. As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt i...

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