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The Blazing World: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

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Description for The Blazing World: Longlisted for the Booker Prize Paperback. The devilishly playful, intellectually inspiring, emotionally involving new novel from Siri Hustvedt, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION

'Dazzling' Sunday Times

'A truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh' Daily Mail

'Playful, ebullient, brainy' Financial Times

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 success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. Then ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444779660
SKU
V9781444779660
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About Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international bestseller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for ... Read more

Reviews for The Blazing World: Longlisted for the Booker Prize
I have told nearly everyone I love - and some random acquaintances - to stop whatever they are doing and read [Hustvedt's] new novel . . . The Blazing World is the playful, ebullient, brainy story of Harriet "Harry" Burden, an artist in her early sixties . . . The book is clearly a feminist undertaking but joyously, unpredictably so. ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Blazing World: Longlisted for the Booker Prize


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