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The Summer Without Men

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-03-03

The Summer Without Men written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Fiction categories.

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

The Blazing World

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Author : Margaret Cavendish
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2024-02-02

The Blazing World written by Margaret Cavendish and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-02 with Literary Collections categories.

"The Blazing World" is a utopian science fiction novel written by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. It was first published in 1666, making it one of the earliest works of science fiction in the English language. Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, and writer who engaged with scientific and speculative ideas of her time.

What I Loved

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2004-03-01

What I Loved written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Fiction categories.

A powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins 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 evolution of 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 children, Matthew and Mark. The families live in the same building in New York, share a house in Vermont during the summer, keep up a lively exchange of thoughts and ideas, and find themselves permanently altered by one another. Over the years, they not only enjoy love but endure loss-in one case sudden, incapacitating loss; in another, a different kind, one that is hidden and slow-growing, and which insidiously erodes the fabric of their lives. Intimate in tone and seductive in its complexity, the novel moves seamlessly from inner worlds to outer worlds, from the deeply private to the public, from physical infirmity to cultural illness. Part family novel, part psychological thriller, What I Loved is a beautifully written exploration of love, loss, and betrayal-and of a man's attempt to make sense of the world and go on living.

Gods Without Men

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Author : Hari Kunzru
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-03-06

Gods Without Men written by Hari Kunzru and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Fiction categories.

In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Women Without Men

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Author : Shahrnūsh Pārsīʹpūr
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998

Women Without Men written by Shahrnūsh Pārsīʹpūr and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.

A magic-realism novel on the lot of women in Iran whose heroines reject men and marriage. One woman turns herself into a tree in order to preserve her virginity, another is born anew after being killed by her brother for disobedience.

A Woman Is No Man

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Author : Etaf Rum
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2019-03-05

A Woman Is No Man written by Etaf Rum and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with Fiction categories.

A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • One of Cosmopolitan’s Best Books by POC for 2019 • A Refinery 29 Best Book of the Month

A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-12-01

A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Psychology categories.

'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

The Summer Without Men

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2011-04-26

The Summer Without Men written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with Fiction categories.

"And 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 The Awful Truth? 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." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, 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. From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes 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.

Mysteries Of The Rectangle

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2006-08-10

Mysteries Of The Rectangle written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Art categories.

In this book, Hustvedt gives us nine essays on the significance of particular works of art, replete with original insights and a few startling discoveries. In her essay on Giorgione's The Tempest, a painting that has mystified art critics for hundreds of years, the author reinterprets the canvas as a work about art and voyeurism. While looking at The Third of May, she was astonished to discover that Goya had hidden his own self-portrait in a shadowy corner of his iconic masterwork. More than anything, the essays in this book display a true passion for art, from the still lifes of Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Giorgio Morandi to the contemporary works of Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. Hustvedt captures perfectly the pleasure found in giving oneself up to the complexities and ambiguities of painting, discovering new subtleties and surprises the longer one takes the time to look.--Back cover.

A Plea For Eros

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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

A Plea For Eros written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with American essays categories.

A stunning collection of essays by the author of WHAT I LOVED, in which she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, she focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James and Fitzgerald. She also refers to her own novels, affording an unusual insight into their creation. Whatever her topic, her approach is unaffected, intimate and conversational, inviting us both to share her thoughts and reflect on our own views and ideas.