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A Plea for Eros: EssaysFrom 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
From 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/27/2005
ISBN: 9780312425531
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/03/2005 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2005 pg. 1063
Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 118
Vanity Fair 01/01/2006 pg. 52
Library Journal 01/15/2006
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 25
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