{"product_id":"ghost-stories-siri-hustvedt-9781399753852","title":"Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'What a kind, honest book.  What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGhost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf' LITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48917103313139,"sku":"9781399753852","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781399753852.jpg?v=1778099188","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/ghost-stories-siri-hustvedt-9781399753852","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}