The Blazing World (Signed First Edition)

Siri Hustvedt

ISBN 10: 1476747237 / ISBN 13: 9781476747231

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014

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New York: Simon Schuster (2014). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions, just the author's name directly on the title page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NOTE: Booker Prize Long List Finalist, 2014.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blazing World (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476747237
• ISBN 13: 9781476747231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize and hailed by The Washington Post as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen.

In a new novel called “searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death.

An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet’s critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in Slate, Katie Roiphe declared it “a spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.”

“Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing” (NPR), Hustvedt’s new novel is “Blazing indeed:...with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity”(Kirkus Reviews, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.

Product Description

HardCover. Pub Date :2014-03-11 Pages: 357 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster With The Blazing World. internationally best-selling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt. who has long been celebrated for her beguiling. lyrical prose (The Sunday Times Books. London). tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored or dismissed by critics. Burden conducts an experiment she calls Maskings: she presents her own art behind three male masks. concealing her female identity.The three solo shows are successful. but when Burden finally steps forward triumphantly to reveal herself as the artist behind the exhibitions. there are critics who doubt her. The public scandal turns on the final exhibition. initially shown as the work of acclaimed ar...