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      A Plea For Eros

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      The critically acclaimed author of the bestselling What I Loved reflects on life, love and literature

      FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN

      ''A luminous collection of mind-ex...

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      Product ID:9780340839782
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:A Plea For Eros
      Authors:Author: Siri Hustvedt
      Page Count:240
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      The critically acclaimed author of the bestselling What I Loved reflects on life, love and literature

      FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN

      ''A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one''s faith in the literary essay'' Robert McCrum, Observer

      ''Thoughtful, sensuous essays . . . her enthusiasms are oddly infectious'' Daily Telegraph

      In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature.

      Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit.

      ''One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays'' Los Angeles Times Book Review



      PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

      ''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

      ''It is Hustvedt''s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'' Hilary Mantel

      ''Her novels have received a deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist . . . in this regard I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf '' Observer

      ''Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt'' Washington Post


      Imprint Name:Sceptre
      Publisher Name:Hodder & Stoughton
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2006-02-13

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      Weight180 g
      Dimensions198 × 132 × 17 mm