{"product_id":"the-blazing-world-siri-hustvedt-9781444779660","title":"The Blazing World","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Dazzling'  Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Playful, ebullient, brainy' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. Then her last collaborator meets a bizarre end. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mesmerising tour de force, Burden's story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energy and thought' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175897923827,"sku":"9781444779660","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781444779660.jpg?v=1662078793","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-blazing-world-siri-hustvedt-9781444779660","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}