Mothers, Fathers, and Others

New Essays

Mothers, Fathers, and Others
Siri Hustvedt
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h234 x 153mm - 320pg
7 Dec 2021 UK
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9781529376654
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' It is Hustvedt' s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear. ' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World. Siri Hustvedt' s relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience, and the books we turn to during a pandemic. Drawing on family history as well as her own life and experiences, she examines the porousness of borders of all kinds in a masterful intellectual journey that is at once personal and universal. Ultimately, Mothers, Fathers, and Others reminds us that the boundaries we take for granted-between ourselves and others, between art and viewer-are far less stable than we imagine.
Praise for Siri Hustvedt' s non-fiction ' It is Hustvedt' s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear. ' -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian * Siri Hustvedt is best known as a novelist and her novels have received deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist -- Salley Vickers * Observer * She is an inspiring guide to territory where both the humanities and the sciences can throw light on the ways in which we construct meaning in our lives. -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * Her erudition, the sharp clarity of her thinking, the variety of her sources and the supple ways in which she weaves them into personal narrative, coupled with her fearlessness in the face of those aspects of the human condition which are of necessity ambiguous, infuse her work with a rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence. -- Melanie McGrath * Sunday Telegraph * Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind -- Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international besteller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros, Living, Thinking, Looking and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. She has also published a poetry collection, Reading To You, and the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529376654
Published: 7 Dec 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 320

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