The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
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.
A love story with the grip and suspense of a thrillerIt makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder - Times Literary Supplement on WHAT I LOVEDA big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real - Julie Myerson, Guardian on WHAT I LOVEDA writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom. - Salman Rushdie on WHAT I LOVEDSubstantial, moving and beautifully written - Independent on Sunday on WHAT I LOVEDFull of humour, surprise and powerful images - Observer on THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHLBrilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut - Independent on Sunday on THE BLINDFOLD
Siri Hustvedt's first novel, THE BLINDFOLD, was published by Sceptre in 1993 and her second, THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL, followed in 1997. Her third novel, WHAT I LOVED, was published in 2003 to even greater acclaim and has been an international success. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Fiction, and The Best American Short Stories, and she is also the author of Reading to You, a poetry collection, and three collections of essays, Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, and A PLEA FOR EROS. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340897072 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340897074 |
| Title | The Sorrows of an American |
| Author | Siri Hustvedt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2008-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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