The Blazing World
by Siri Hustvedt
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- Author: Siri Hustvedt
- ISBN: 9781476747231 (1476747237)
- Format: hardcover, 368 pages
- Characters: Harriet Burden, Felix Lord, Maisie Lord, Eliot Lord, Bruno Kleinfeld
- Places: New York City, New York
- Awards: Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2014), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2014), Le Prix Transfuge du Meilluer Roman Americain (2014)
- Publisher: Simon Schuster
- Release date: March 11, 2014
- Language: english
- Genres: fiction, art, feminism, contemporary, novels, unfinished, american, womens, literature
About The Book
A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist’s death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden’s notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work. Even after she steps forward to reveal herself as the force behind three solo shows, there are those who doubt she is responsible for the last exhibition, initially credited to the acclaimed artist Rune. No one doubts the two artists were involved with each other. According to Burden’s journals, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous psychological game that ended with the man’s bizarre death.
From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt’s The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. It is also an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that addresses the shaping influences of prejudice, money, fame, and desire on what we see in one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, this is a book you won’t be able to put down.
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