{"product_id":"the-blindfold-siri-hustvedt-9780340581230","title":"The Blindfold","description":"FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED\nWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CATHERINE LACEY\n'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed debut ' Don DeLillo\n'Brilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut' Independent on Sunday\n'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche' Daily Telegraph\nIris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter\/wife\/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.\n'Attests to Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice . . . the announcement of a talented writer's arrival' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times\nPRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:\n 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie\n 'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks\n 'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times\n 'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68206657437984,"sku":"9780340581230","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780340581230_284319.jpg?v=1794235926","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-blindfold-siri-hustvedt-9780340581230","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}