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    A Plea For Eros: Essays on art, love and desire from 'a 21st-century Virginia Woolf' - Literary Review

    Siri Hustvedt

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    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.

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    The Delusions of Certainty
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    A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
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    The Blazing World
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    Praise for A Plea For Eros

    • She strides across these pages: a 6ft tall Amazonian New Yorker...by whom we are at once riveted and faintly disconcerted...Hustvedt is a lucid writer, whose spare, elegant prose wears lightly its eclectic reference points. - Observer

    • Thoughtful, sensuous essays...her enthusiasms are oddly infectious - Daily Telegraph

    • A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes...A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay - Robert McCrum, Observer

    • An intellectual, emotional and elegantly written collection that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder...Her passion for language and literature makes the prose leap from the page...Hustvedt is, quite simply, an extraordinary literary talent. Read it, ponder it, then go read it again. - Image

    Siri Hustvedt

    Siri Hustvedt

    Siri Hustvedt's first novel, THE BLINDFOLD, was published by Sceptre in 1993 and her second, THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL, followed in 1997. Both were highly acclaimed and translated around the world. Her third novel, WHAT I LOVED, was published in 2003 to even greater acclaim and has been an international success. She is also the author of a poetry collection, READING TO YOU, YONDER, a collection of essays, and MYSTERIES OF THE RECTANGLE: Essays on Painting. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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