{"product_id":"a-plea-for-eros","title":"Siri Hustvedt: A Plea For Eros [2006] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eWHAT I LOVED \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eA WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Thoughtful, sensuous essays . . . her enthusiasms are oddly infectious' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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 ' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hustvedt, Siri","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47781750407507,"sku":"XV80340839782","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hustvedt-siri-siri-hustvedt-a-plea-for-eros-2006-paperback-xv80340839782-54822674432339.jpg?v=1728306671","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/a-plea-for-eros","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}