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Zusatztext A wonderful! surprising and elegant read... One of the best books I've read this year. Informationen zum Autor 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 or 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 College and has written on art for the New York Times , the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues. Klappentext 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 An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt. Zusammenfassung An exhilarating tragicomedy by Siri Hustvedt, the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved....
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