The Blindfold - Softcover

Hustvedt, Siri

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ISBN 10: 031242275X ISBN 13: 9780312422752

Publisher: Picador, 2003

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Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.

Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold is ..".a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." - Don DeLillo.

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"This is a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." --Don DeLillo, author of "Underworld"

"["The Blindfold"] attests to Ms. Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice. . .the announcement of a talented writer's arrival." --Michiko Kakutani, " The New York Times"

""The Blindfold" is a seamless piece of work--a haunting odyssey of annihilation and resurrection carved by an expert storyteller." --"San Francisco Chronicle"

This is a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid. "Don DeLillo, author of Underworld"

["The Blindfold"] attests to Ms. Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice. . .the announcement of a talented writer's arrival. "Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"

"The Blindfold" is a seamless piece of work--a haunting odyssey of annihilation and resurrection carved by an expert storyteller. "San Francisco Chronicle""

This is a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid. Don DeLillo, author of Underworld

[The Blindfold] attests to Ms. Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice. . .the announcement of a talented writer's arrival. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

The Blindfold is a seamless piece of work--a haunting odyssey of annihilation and resurrection carved by an expert storyteller. San Francisco Chronicle

"This is a work of dizzying intensity. . .eloquent and vivid." --Don DeLillo, author of Underworld

"[The Blindfold] attests to Ms. Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice. . .the announcement of a talented writer's arrival." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The Blindfold is a seamless piece of work--a haunting odyssey of annihilation and resurrection carved by an expert storyteller." --San Francisco Chronicle

Book Description:

The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller WHAT I LOVED.

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