Plea for Eros Essays

Name: Plea for Eros Essays
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ISBN: 9780312425531

ISBN-10: 0312425538

ISBN-13: 9780312425531

Edition: 2006

Authors: Siri Hustvedt

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Yonder


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