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"
("The Boston Globe") 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."
"Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing" (NPR),
Hustvedt's new novel is "Blazing indeed: ...with agonizing
compassion for all of wounded humanity"("Kirkus Reviews," starred
review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to
come.
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