The Enchantment of Lily Dahl: A Novel - Softcover

Hustvedt, Siri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805055908 ISBN 13: 9780805055900

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt's riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small town of Webster, Minnesota, Lily's life revolves around the Ideal Café. She lives above the café in a rented room and works there as a waitress. This is the stage Hustvedt sets for a bizarre cast of characters who frequent the café and populate Lily's life.

Weaving a fascinating spell of mystery and suspense, Hustvedt recounts the erotic adventures, unexpected friendships, and inexplicable acts of madness that usher Lily into womanhood. By skillfully mixing reality and dreams, fact and fiction, past and present, Hustvedt creates a powerful world not quite real, but altogether truthful.

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Review:

"Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream--a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you."--Salman Rushdie
"Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor."--"Newsday"
""The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there." --"The Village Voice"
"She writes like a dream."--"GQ"

Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream--a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you. "Salman Rushdie"

Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor. "Newsday"

"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there. "The Village Voice"

She writes like a dream. "GQ""

Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream--a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you. Salman Rushdie

Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor. Newsday

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there. The Village Voice

She writes like a dream. GQ

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"Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream--a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you." --Salman Rushdie

"Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor." --Newsday

"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there." --The Village Voice

"She writes like a dream." --GQ

Book Description:

Siri Hustvedt's mesmerising second novel, 'startlingly good, tautly written and very sexy' Marie Claire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805055908
• ISBN 13: 9780805055900
• Binding: Paperback