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Plea for Eros : Essays by Siri Hustvedt (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Plea for Eros : Essays, Paperback by Hustvedt, Siri, ISBN 0312425538, ISBN-13 9780312425531, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A thought-provoking collection of autobiographical and critical essays explores the world of writers and writing, providing thoughtful analyses of the works of Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James, among others, as well as a study of the multiple personalities that inhabit a writer's mind and the cultural prejudices that shape both literature and life. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312425538

ISBN-139780312425531

eBay Product ID (ePID)47853968

Product Key Features

Book TitlePlea for Eros : Essays

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpecial Interest / Literary, Essays & Travelogues, Essays

Publication Year2005

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Literary Collections

AuthorSiri Hustvedt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-044616

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Clear, elegant writing ... Readers will find both emotional and intellectual resonance in Hustvedt's deeply personal essays." -- Publishers Weekly "As accomplished and intelligent as the author's fiction--which is saying a lot." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Clear, elegant writing ... Readers will find both emotional and intellectual resonance in Hustvedt's deeply personal essays."-- Publishers Weekly "As accomplished and intelligent as the author's fiction-which is saying a lot."-- Kirkus Reviews, Clear, elegant writing ... Readers will find both emotional and intellectual resonance in Hustvedt's deeply personal essays.

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Decimal814/.54

Table Of ContentYonder A Plea for Eros Franklin Pangborn: An Apologia Eight Days in a Corset Being a Man Leaving Your Mother Living with Strangers 9/11, or One Year Later The Bostonians : Personal and Impersonal Words Charles Dickens and the Morbid Fragment Extracts from a Story of the Wounded Self

SynopsisFrom the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.

LC Classification NumberPS3558.U813P58 2006