{"title":"Siri Hustvedt","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the thought-provoking novels of Siri Hustvedt, exploring themes of identity, memory, and the complexities of human relationships. A must-read for fans of intelligent, literary fiction. Start your journey here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"memories-of-the-future-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473694415","title":"Memories of the Future","description":"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 has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door.  Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49503584026897,"sku":"GOR009714980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653943632145,"sku":"GOR011688226","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51148025004305,"sku":"GOR009740687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473694418.jpg?v=1751116574"},{"product_id":"sorrows-of-an-american-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340897065","title":"The Sorrows of an American","description":"After their fathers funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his fathers memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Eriks lonely, divorced life  a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting  a novel that resonates long beyond the last page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505103610129,"sku":"GOR001243273","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53097669853457,"sku":"GOR002680694","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340897066.jpg?v=1751259978"},{"product_id":"summer-without-men-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444720259","title":"The Summer Without Men","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED  'Funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen' Daily Mail  'Astoundingly joyful' Guardian  'Alarmingly funny' Times Literary Supplement  After Mia's husband of thirty years asks for a 'pause', to indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague, she briefly breaks down before retreating to the prairie town of her childhood, to rage and reassess her life.   Slowly, however, she's drawn into the lives of the women around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows, her young neighbour with two small children, the teenage girls in her poetry class. As Mia faces her summer without men, she must discover what's worth fighting for - and on whose terms.   'A rich and intelligent meditation on female identity' Sunday Times  'A mordant comedy' Observer","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49506058273041,"sku":"GOR002811502","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49732415684881,"sku":"NGR9781444720259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49937458037009,"sku":"CIN1444720252A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764010651921,"sku":"CIN1444720252VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51277881606417,"sku":"GOR010574697","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106493657361,"sku":"CIN1444720252G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52821589098769,"sku":"GOR002994557","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444720252.jpg?v=1766657183"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340682388","title":"What I Loved","description":"LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION  With an introduction by Megan Nolan, bestselling author of Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Feelings  'Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs' Salman Rushdie  'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling' Sunday Times  'A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real' Guardian  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 Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.  This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.  PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:  'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks  'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times  'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49509966479633,"sku":"GOR000369392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640758640913,"sku":"GOR000066257","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49727459524881,"sku":"CIN0340682388G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727528435985,"sku":"NGR9780340682388","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50172182069521,"sku":"GOR010475933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514220810513,"sku":"GOR001056523","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103450657041,"sku":"CIN0340682388VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52401054810385,"sku":"NLS9780340682388","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340682388.jpg?v=1766657698"},{"product_id":"plea-for-eros-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340839782","title":"A Plea For Eros","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN  'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes'  Observer  'Thoughtful and sensuous' Daily Telegraph  This illuminating collection brings together Siri Hustvedt's earliest essays, exploring the themes that have preoccupied her writing throughout her career: memory and imagination, psychology and art, love and desire. Drawing on her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife; student, teacher, reader and writer - she illustrates fundamental aspects of our lives.  Wise, honest and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the world we inhabit.  'One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays' Los Angeles Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511056310545,"sku":"GOR001709237","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608929739025,"sku":"GOR001962392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727810273553,"sku":"NGR9780340839782","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50469490327825,"sku":"GOR005811545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51709010903313,"sku":"GOR014372836","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340839783.jpg?v=1766658340"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444779660","title":"The Blazing World","description":"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 her last collaborator meets a bizarre end.   In this mesmerising tour de force, Burden's story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply.  'A novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energy and thought' The Times   PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:  'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie  'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks  'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times  'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post  'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary Review","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49514821779729,"sku":"GOR006504418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524589035793,"sku":"GOR006726933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733186978065,"sku":"NGR9781444779660","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50557095280913,"sku":"GOR008276009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51532443681041,"sku":"GOR007189293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444779664.jpg?v=1766658559"},{"product_id":"living-thinking-looking-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444732634","title":"Living, Thinking, Looking","description":"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 into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science as Siri explores how we see, remember, feel and interact with others, what it means to sleep, dream and speak, and what we mean by 'self'. The combination offers a profound and fascinating insight into ourselves as thinking, feeling beings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49518954905873,"sku":"GOR005044803","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50099034784017,"sku":"GOR006018942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51152221241617,"sku":"GOR006834887","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444732633.jpg?v=1750714457"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9780312421199","title":"What I Loved","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiri Hustvedt's \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved \u003c\/i\u003ebegins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524097220881,"sku":"GOR004346981","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655234593041,"sku":"GOR010980970","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49705360458001,"sku":"CIN0312421192G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49764304519441,"sku":"CIN0312421192VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777882366225,"sku":"CIN0312421192A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000871977233,"sku":"NIN9780312421199","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312421192.jpg?v=1773314804"},{"product_id":"enchantment-of-lily-dahl-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340682364","title":"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl","description":"LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION  FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED   'A taut and convincing drama, as well as an intriguing metaphysical thriller' Sunday Times  'Full of humour, surprise and powerful images' Observer  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 erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life.  'Queasily erotic, gothic and menacing' Evening Standard   PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:  'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie  'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks  'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times  'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524920058129,"sku":"GOR001355456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727333925137,"sku":"NGR9780340682364","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51094693183761,"sku":"GOR002050448","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53200755818769,"sku":"GOR014803999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340682361.jpg?v=1773914694"},{"product_id":"living-thinking-looking-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444732658","title":"Living, Thinking, Looking","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN  'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous' Independent  'Richly intelligent' Financial Times  In these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way. Covering a wide range of subjects, from the nature of desire to false memories and the paintings of Goya, she draws on the insights provided by both the arts and sciences to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human - to live, think and look.  'As an essayist, Hustvedt is the best kind: superbly clear, intellectually challenging but always human' Independent on Sunday","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49525284765969,"sku":"GOR004966591","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608158839057,"sku":"GOR006726636","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731419734289,"sku":"NGR9781444732658","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50892804260113,"sku":"GOR008940505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50942897193233,"sku":"GOR012203767","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/144473265X.jpg?v=1766657703"},{"product_id":"enchantment-of-lily-dahl-book-siri-hustvedt-9780805049206","title":"Enchantment of Lily Dahl","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528426365201,"sku":"GOR004320128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909459681553,"sku":"CIN0805049207G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50282264428817,"sku":"CIN0805049207VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805049207.jpg?v=1751395089"},{"product_id":"shaking-woman-or-a-history-of-my-nerves-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340998779","title":"The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN  WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NOGA ARIKHA  'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story'  Oliver Sacks  'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'  Hilary Mantel, Guardian  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, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often frightening mysteries of illness, she illuminates the perennially mysterious connection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'.  'Fascinating'  Daily Telegraph  'Elegant, clear and wide-ranging' Independent","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532705964305,"sku":"GOR002674109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49654938108177,"sku":"GOR002595579","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730534506769,"sku":"NGR9780340998779","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896706375953,"sku":"CIN0340998776G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53036624970001,"sku":"GOR010715037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340998776.jpg?v=1773914492"},{"product_id":"quello-che-ho-amato-book-siri-hustvedt-9788806227203","title":"Quello che ho amato","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534603755793,"sku":"GOR013521423","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8806227203.jpg?v=1751191371"},{"product_id":"sorrows-of-an-american-book-siri-hustvedt-9780805079081","title":"The Sorrows of an American","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's\u003ci\u003e The Sorrows of an American \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral. Erik is a psychiatrist dangerously vulnerable to his patients; Inga is a writer whose late husband, a famous novelist, seems to have concealed a secret life. Interwoven with each new mystery in their lives are discoveries about their father's youth--poverty, the War, the Depression--that bring new implications to his relationship with his children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis masterful novel reveals one family's hidden sorrows in an elegant meditation on familial grief, memory, and imagination (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539722772753,"sku":"GOR002871711","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361501221137,"sku":"CIN0805079084G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330403533073,"sku":"CIN0805079084VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53162980671761,"sku":"GOR002843057","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805079084.jpg?v=1751435011"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444779639","title":"The Blazing World","description":"Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men.   Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her 'masks' turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.  This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, The Blazing World is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540560814353,"sku":"GOR005856774","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644038717713,"sku":"GOR013703528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51084407734545,"sku":"GOR011435932","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/144477963X.jpg?v=1751447848"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340830727","title":"What I Loved","description":"This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540809130257,"sku":"GOR002004734","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572343152913,"sku":"GOR001206975","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49910992896273,"sku":"CIN0340830727G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50445236601105,"sku":"GOR002736005","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340830727.jpg?v=1750941366"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473639058","title":"What I Loved","description":"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, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.   This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.  'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling' Sunday Times 'A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller.' - Times Literary Supplement","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543065207057,"sku":"GOR007985959","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49659706442001,"sku":"GOR008765294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53440011075857,"sku":"GOR010529617","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473639050.jpg?v=1751447930"},{"product_id":"woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473638907","title":"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women","description":"'A great book' Elif Shafak, Observer  'Phenomenal' Guardian  In this remarkable collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt confirms her reputation as one of our most important contemporary writers, bringing a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to subjects across the humanities and sciences.   The book's first section explores the complexities of perception and art, with Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, and Karl Ove Knausgaard among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book's central essay she explores the intractable mind-body problem, and in the final section she reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, and memory.   With astounding clarity, passion, and wit, Hustvedt exposes gender bias, upends received ideas, and challenges her reader to think again.  'A writer with an unusual blend of incisive intelligence, humour and imagination . . . we are fortunate to have Hustvedt voicing doubt so intelligently'  Lara Feigel, Financial Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551564603665,"sku":"GOR008770527","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572775624977,"sku":"GOR008699907","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642769940753,"sku":"GOR010402762","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733610406161,"sku":"NGR9781473638907","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094232404241,"sku":"CIN1473638909G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50162876612881,"sku":"GOR008775145","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51781673451793,"sku":"CIN1473638909VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52433990910225,"sku":"NLS9781473638907","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473638909.jpg?v=1773918283"},{"product_id":"sorrows-of-an-american-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340897089","title":"The Sorrows of an American","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED  'An astonishing family drama . . . almost certainly the best American novel you will read this year' Sunday Telegraph  'Almost impossible to put down' Independent  'Masterful' The Times  'Wonderful' Observer  While clearing out their late father's papers, Erik and Inga Davidsen unearth a cryptic letter from his adolescence. Desperate to discover the man they never fully understood, they set about reading his memoir.  As the siblings are drawn into his past, their lives are upended by two strangers. Erik becomes captivated by Miranda, a young mother who moves into his garden flat. And Inga, still grieving her husband's recent death, is threatened by a journalist in possession of a devastating secret.   'One of the most profound and absorbing books I've read in a long time' Washington Post","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553881825553,"sku":"GOR001246293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730213544209,"sku":"NGR9780340897089","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348772786449,"sku":"CIN0340897082G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350526136593,"sku":"CIN0340897082A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52384908935441,"sku":"GOR001572522","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340897082.jpg?v=1766658116"},{"product_id":"summer-without-men-book-siri-hustvedt-9780312570606","title":"Summer Without Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of\u003c\/i\u003e The Awful Truth\u003ci\u003e? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a pause. This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her--her mother and her close friends, the Five Swans, and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband--and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved \u003c\/i\u003ecomes Siri Hustvedt's provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49556486947089,"sku":"GOR002855847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638638518545,"sku":"GOR011965495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347604443409,"sku":"CIN0312570600A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000897569041,"sku":"NIN9780312570606","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51424297582865,"sku":"CIN0312570600VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51798910075153,"sku":"GOR014406887","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103229997329,"sku":"CIN0312570600G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312570600.jpg?v=1750973636"},{"product_id":"woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473638891","title":"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women","description":"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 is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.   The essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind\/body problem, showing how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire, belief, and the imagination. The essays in the final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition, tackle such elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard. Together they form an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of some of the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition, delivered with Siri Hustvedt's customary lucidity, vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560073044241,"sku":"GOR008336975","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640254144785,"sku":"GOR008033945","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656025645329,"sku":"GOR009970655","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473638895.jpg?v=1751453614"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444730470","title":"What I Loved","description":"This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year.  Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560544182545,"sku":"GOR003979545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444730479.jpg?v=1766656903"},{"product_id":"summer-without-men-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444710540","title":"The Summer without Men","description":"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 along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560951226641,"sku":"GOR002955630","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49651403686161,"sku":"GOR011620567","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909057552657,"sku":"CIN1444710540G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50454310846737,"sku":"GOR013958199","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444710540.jpg?v=1751403898"},{"product_id":"blindfold-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340581230","title":"The Blindfold","description":"The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller What I Loved.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561606783249,"sku":"GOR001319722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599784943889,"sku":"GOR001352242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49732071489809,"sku":"NGR9780340581230","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51799792484625,"sku":"GOR009394465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52544415105297,"sku":"GOR002426282","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340581239.jpg?v=1773920141"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444779646","title":"The Blazing World","description":"Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men.   Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her 'masks' turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.  This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, The Blazing World is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564663677201,"sku":"GOR005551250","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49666100166929,"sku":"GOR006107845","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444779648.jpg?v=1751370755"},{"product_id":"blindfold-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340579022","title":"The Blindfold","description":"Iris Vegan is a graduate student, living alone and impoverished in New York City. In the course of the novel, she encounters four strong characters, each of whom fascinates and in some way subordinates her to alter the shape of her identity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571573301521,"sku":"GOR001318124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340579021.jpg?v=1750738730"},{"product_id":"shaking-woman-or-a-history-of-my-nerves-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340998762","title":"The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves","description":"While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. She managed to finish her talk and the paroxysms stopped, but not for good. Again and again she found herself a victim of the shudders. What had happened?Chronicling her search for the shaking woman, Hustvedt takes the reader on a journey into contemporary psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. She unearths stories and theories from the annals of medical history, literature and philosophy, and delves into her own past. In the process, she raises fundamental questions: what is the relationship between mind and body? How do we remember? What is the self?In a seamless synthesis of personal experience and extensive research, Hustvedt conveys the often frightening mysteries of illness and the complexities of diagnosis. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, The Shaking Woman brilliantly illuminates the age-old dilemma of the mental and the physical, and what it means to be human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587209273617,"sku":"GOR002036787","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49646985216273,"sku":"GOR002531752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340998768.jpg?v=1751424073"},{"product_id":"enchantment-of-lily-dahl-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340682357","title":"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl","description":"A novel by the author of \"The Blindfold\".","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588352483601,"sku":"GOR001790489","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52785627169041,"sku":"GOR006008021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340682353.jpg?v=1751357510"},{"product_id":"sorrows-of-an-american-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340897096","title":"The Sorrows of an American","description":"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 provide the sensuous delights of image and language...a compelling narrative in which the past haunts the present of characters so vividly real they become members of your intimate circle and erupt in your dreams... almost impossible to put down, and even harder not to re-read' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent   'Wonderful' Vik Groskop, Observer   'Subtle and complex' Tom Deveson, Sunday Times   'Beautifully thought through, deeply serious and enormously intelligent' Jane Smiley, Guardian","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591254679825,"sku":"GOR002233206","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50487058759953,"sku":"GOR005679942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51259025228049,"sku":"GOR002276800","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340897090.jpg?v=1751390646"},{"product_id":"woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473638914","title":"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women","description":"As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.   The essays in this volume - all written between 2011 and 2015 - are in three parts. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women brings together penetrating pieces on particular artists and writers such as Picasso, Kiefer and Susan Sontag as well as essays investigating the biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. The Delusions of Certainty is an essay about the mind\/body problem, showing how this age-old philosophical puzzle has shaped contemporary debates on many subjects and how every discipline is coloured by what lies beyond argument-desire, belief, and the imagination. The essays in the final section, What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition, tackle such elusive neurological disorders as synesthesia and hysteria. Drawing on research in sociology, neurobiology, history, genetics, statistics, psychology and psychiatry, this section also contains a profound consideration of suicide and a towering reconsideration of Kierkegaard. Together they form an extremely stimulating, thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of some of the fundamental questions about human beings and the human condition, delivered with Siri Hustvedt's customary lucidity, vivacity and infectiously questioning intelligence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592528994577,"sku":"GOR008748620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473638917.jpg?v=1750892426"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781476747231","title":"The Blazing World","description":"Named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year ** \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003eFiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com's Best of 2014 Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e as Siri Hustvedt's best novel yet, an electrifying work, \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman's struggle to be seen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a new novel called searingly fresh. A Nabokovian cat's cradle on the cover of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet's critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, Katie Roiphe declared it a spectacularly good read.feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir's \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e or Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAstonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing (NPR), Hustvedt's new novel is Blazing indeed: .with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity(\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612691243281,"sku":"GOR013699096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619894731025,"sku":"GOR009516329","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376920432913,"sku":"CIN1476747237A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51720695218449,"sku":"CIN1476747237VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51882939711761,"sku":"CIN1476747237G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1476747237.jpg?v=1750892580"},{"product_id":"summer-without-men-book-siri-hustvedt-9781444710526","title":"The Summer Without Men","description":"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 along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms.  Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, The Summer Without Men is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by one of the most acclaimed American writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618734317841,"sku":"GOR002660808","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49637262819601,"sku":"GOR002688536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639973060881,"sku":"GOR002789098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49907151012113,"sku":"GOR010698897","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52964315431185,"sku":"CIN1444710524VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1444710524.jpg?v=1751420260"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473611566","title":"The Blazing World","description":"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 success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. Then her last collaborator meets a bizarre end.   In this mesmerising tour de force, Burden's story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618923946257,"sku":"GOR007334103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49726763860241,"sku":"GOR009212002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49910074900753,"sku":"CIN1473611563G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50414555595025,"sku":"GOR006584138","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473611563.jpg?v=1750988862"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340936337","title":"What I Loved","description":"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 their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625062474001,"sku":"GOR001456773","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50097088725265,"sku":"GOR001297220","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340936339.jpg?v=1751442954"},{"product_id":"was-ich-liebte-book-siri-hustvedt-9783499233098","title":"Was Ich Liebte","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625246236945,"sku":"GOR004291561","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3499233096.jpg?v=1750934801"},{"product_id":"sorrows-of-an-american-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340897072","title":"The Sorrows of an American","description":"After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from a woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully knew. At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced life - a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat and mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is breathtaking in its range, richly thought-provoking and profoundly affecting - a novel that resonates long beyond the last page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625318523153,"sku":"GOR001690804","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49627513946385,"sku":"GOR004020298","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0340897074.jpg?v=1751390646"},{"product_id":"enchantment-of-lily-dahl-book-siri-hustvedt-9780312423391","title":"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel \u003ci\u003eThe Enchantment of Lily Dahl \u003c\/i\u003eis a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town--Webster, Minnesota--where people are brought together by a powerful sense of place, both geographical and spiritual. Here gossip, secrets, and storytelling are as essential to the bond among its people as the borders that enclose the town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe real secret at the heart of the book is the one that lies between reality and appearances, between waking life and dreams, at the place where imagination draws on its transforming powers in the face of death.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49631944605969,"sku":"GOR012765209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138852032785,"sku":"CIN031242339XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347548147985,"sku":"CIN031242339XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000882069777,"sku":"NIN9780312423391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52097485766929,"sku":"CIN031242339XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/031242339X.jpg?v=1751421087"},{"product_id":"memories-of-the-future-book-siri-hustvedt-9781473694460","title":"Memories of the Future","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED  'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post  'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary Review  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 has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door.  Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?  'Provocative and mysterious . . . comic and sensual' Daily Mail   PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:  'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie  'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks  'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49635781706001,"sku":"GOR010539050","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734368362769,"sku":"NGR9781473694460","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50032269197585,"sku":"CIN1473694469G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50578112413969,"sku":"GOR012107012","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52701100933393,"sku":"GOR010870138","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473694469.jpg?v=1773920488"},{"product_id":"blindfold-book-siri-hustvedt-9781501171727","title":"The Blindfold","description":"From the author of The Blazing World, a work of dizzying intensity...eloquent and vivid (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances--physical, cerebral, and existential--when she moves to New York City.Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strong life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49641709830417,"sku":"GOR009677718","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49674238656785,"sku":"CIN1501171720G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51743339675921,"sku":"NIN9781501171727","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51886554317073,"sku":"CIN1501171720VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501171720.jpg?v=1751340230"},{"product_id":"plea-for-eros-book-siri-hustvedt-9780312425531","title":"A Plea for Eros","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved, \u003c\/i\u003e a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642765943057,"sku":"GOR006091761","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347472650513,"sku":"CIN0312425538G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50953278783761,"sku":"GOR002689105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000910250257,"sku":"NIN9780312425531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312425538.jpg?v=1750908873"},{"product_id":"blindfold-book-siri-hustvedt-9780671759537","title":"The Blindfold","description":"From the author of The Blazing World, a work of dizzying intensity...eloquent and vivid (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances--physical, cerebral, and existential--when she moves to New York City.Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strong life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644932890897,"sku":"GOR009517873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478188757265,"sku":"CIN0671759531G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52549289148689,"sku":"CIN0671759531A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53023115739409,"sku":"CIN0671759531VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0671759531.jpg?v=1750700813"},{"product_id":"what-i-loved-book-siri-hustvedt-9780340682371","title":"What I Loved","description":"This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661908451601,"sku":"GOR001288074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49666035351825,"sku":"GOR002017812","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49990062407953,"sku":"GOR001497720","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/034068237X.jpg?v=1751447344"},{"product_id":"mothers-fathers-and-others-book-siri-hustvedt-9781529376647","title":"Mothers, Fathers, and Others","description":"'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian  Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.    Siri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience, and the books we turn to during a pandemic.  Drawing on family history as well as her own life and experiences, she examines the porousness of borders of all kinds in a masterful intellectual journey that is at once personal and universal. Ultimately, Mothers, Fathers, and Others reminds us that the boundaries we take for granted-between ourselves and others, between art and viewer-are far less stable than we imagine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742693204241,"sku":"NGR9781529376647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50942255300881,"sku":"GOR011900077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52842435346705,"sku":"GOR011931674","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529376645.jpg?v=1773136643"},{"product_id":"mothers-fathers-and-others-book-siri-hustvedt-9781529376715","title":"Mothers, Fathers, and Others","description":"'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' i  Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny.   Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, science, literature and ethnography, this is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. Fierce, moving and witty, it warns against drawing hard and fast borders where none exist.  'The voice is consistent, combining assured erudition with more playful questioning, always thoughtful and capable of surprising shifts of register and even genre'  Lara Feigel, Guardian    PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:  'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie  'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' Hilary Mantel  'Her novels have received a deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist . . . in this regard I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf ' Observer  'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745087365393,"sku":"NGR9781529376715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50532434870545,"sku":"GOR013186963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50580017217809,"sku":"GOR012684926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51865251021073,"sku":"CIN1529376718G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53072087154961,"sku":"GOR013180773","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529376718.jpg?v=1773920905"},{"product_id":"mothers-fathers-and-others-book-siri-hustvedt-9781982176402","title":"Mothers, Fathers, and Others","description":"Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this profound (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted--between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork--which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.Described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf in the Literary Review (UK), Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Bront , and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. This moving, fierce, and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant, dynamic exchange with what is around us, and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49781629288721,"sku":"CIN1982176407G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50208748273937,"sku":"CIN1982176407VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061350498577,"sku":"NIN9781982176402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982176407.jpg?v=1750836664"},{"product_id":"blazing-world-book-siri-hustvedt-9781476747248","title":"The Blazing World","description":"Named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year ** \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003eFiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e's Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com's Best of 2014 Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e as Siri Hustvedt's best novel yet, an electrifying work, \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman's struggle to be seen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a new novel called searingly fresh. A Nabokovian cat's cradle on the cover of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet's critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, Katie Roiphe declared it a spectacularly good read.feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir's \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e or Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAstonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing (NPR), Hustvedt's new novel is Blazing indeed: .with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity(\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789263511825,"sku":"CIN1476747245VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50146713075985,"sku":"CIN1476747245G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50259898892561,"sku":"CIN1476747245A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028459159825,"sku":"NIN9781476747248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1476747245.jpg?v=1751020902"},{"product_id":"living-thinking-looking-book-siri-hustvedt-9781250009524","title":"Living, Thinking, Looking","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (\u003ci\u003eMysteries of the Rectangle\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder (\u003ci\u003eThe Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves\u003c\/i\u003e). She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. \u003ci\u003eLiving, Thinking, Looking\u003c\/i\u003e brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into three sections: the essays in \u003ci\u003eLiving\u003c\/i\u003e draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in \u003ci\u003eThinking\u003c\/i\u003e explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in \u003ci\u003eLooking\u003c\/i\u003e are about visual art. And yet, the same questions recur throughout the collection. How do we see, remember, and feel? How do we interact with other people? What does it mean to sleep, dream, and speak? What is the self? Hustvedt's unique synthesis of knowledge from many fields reinvigorates the much-needed dialogue between the humanities and the sciences as it deepens our understanding of an age-old riddle: What does it mean to be human?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49892132028689,"sku":"CIN1250009529VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50484276789521,"sku":"CIN1250009529G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51021890650385,"sku":"NIN9781250009524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52449969406225,"sku":"CIN1250009529A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250009529.jpg?v=1751402046"},{"product_id":"essays-book-siri-hustvedt-9780805050110","title":"Essays","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49911220306193,"sku":"CIN0805050116G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51481583911185,"sku":"CIN0805050116VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805050116.jpg?v=1751076307"},{"product_id":"shaking-woman-or-a-history-of-my-nerves-book-siri-hustvedt-9780805091694","title":"The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile 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 shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and was able to finish her speech. It was as if she had suddenly become two people: a calm orator and a shuddering wreck. Then the seizures happened again and again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shaking Woman\u003c\/i\u003e tracks Hustvedt's search for a diagnosis, one that takes her inside the thought processes of several scientific disciplines, each one of which offers a distinct perspective on her paroxysms but no ready solution. In the process, she finds herself entangled in fundamental questions: What is the relationship between brain and mind? How do we remember? What is the self? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring her investigations, Hustvedt joins a discussion group in which neurologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and brain scientists trade ideas to develop a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. She volunteers as a writing teacher for psychiatric in-patients at the Payne Whitney clinic in New York City and unearths precedents in medical history that illuminate the origins of and shifts in our theories about the mind-body problem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Shaking Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, Hustvedt synthesizes her experience and research into a compelling mystery: Who is the shaking woman? In the end, the story she tells becomes, in the words of George Makari, author of\u003ci\u003eRevolution in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliant illumination for us all.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49955304046865,"sku":"CIN0805091696G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763089969425,"sku":"CIN0805091696VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51582991270161,"sku":"GOR008886850","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51592269627665,"sku":"GOR014340050","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805091696.jpg?v=1751264820"},{"product_id":"woman-looking-at-men-looking-at-women-book-siri-hustvedt-9781501141102","title":"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women","description":"A compelling, radical, richly explored (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), and insightful (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a trilogy of works brought together in a single volume, Siri Hustvedt demonstrates the striking range and depth of her knowledge in both the humanities and the sciences. Armed with passionate curiosity, a sense of humor, and insights from many disciplines she repeatedly upends received ideas and cultural truisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women (which provided the title of this book) examines particular artworks but also human perception itself, including the biases that influence how we judge art, literature, and the world. Picasso, de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Karl Ove Knausgaard all come under Hustvedt's intense scrutiny. The Delusions of Certainty exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped and often distorted and confused contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology. What Are We? Lectures on the Human Condition includes a powerful reading of Kierkegaard, a trenchant analysis of suicide, and penetrating reflections on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory and space, and the philosophical dilemmas of fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women\u003c\/i\u003e is an erudite (\u003ci\u003eBooklist), \u003c\/i\u003e wide-ranging, irreverent, and absorbing meditation on thinking, knowing, and being (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50024427258129,"sku":"CIN1501141104G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51031100227857,"sku":"NIN9781501141102","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52116308951313,"sku":"CIN1501141104VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52780814172433,"sku":"GOR010250092","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501141104.jpg?v=1751148629"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-siri-hustvedt.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}