What I Loved - Couverture souple

Hustvedt, Siri

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340682388 ISBN 13 : 9780340682388

Editeur : Sceptre, 2003

Synopsis

Physical description; 384 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Male friendship - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Fathers and sons - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Art historians - Fiction. Loss (Psychology) - Fiction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, and four collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking, as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves.

Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities.
She delivered the Schelling Lecture in Aesthetics in Munich in 2010, the Freud Lecture in Vienna in 2011 and the opening keynote at the conference to mark Kierkegaard's 200th anniversary in Copenhagen in 2013, while her latest honorary doctorate is from the University of Gutenburg in Germany. She is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical School and has written on art for the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues.

Revue de presse :

Breathtaking (James Urquhart, Independent)

A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller. It makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder. (Noonie Minogue, Times Literary Supplement)

Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling ... she has created a conceptually exciting work that demands we think, but which still allows us room to feel. (Alex Clark, Sunday Times)

Substantial, moving and beautifully written (Christian House, Independent on Sunday)

A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real (Julie Myerson, Guardian)

A consummately intelligent novel, highly literate but also intensely moving. (Jackie McGlone, Scotsman)

Riveting ... erudite and immensely detailed ... a rich, densely textured and utterly absorbing novel (Lesley Glaister)

Subtle, compassionate, wise, and supremely intelligent, it's a striking achievement. (Kieron Corless, Time Out)

Hustvedt ranks amongst the finest American writers working today (Jennifer O'Connell, Sunday Business Post)

a powerful novel of love, loss and longing, exquisitely written (Anne Donovan, Sunday Herald)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0340682388
• ISBN 13: 9780340682388
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384