{"product_id":"mothers-fathers-and-others-new-essays-9781529376715","title":"Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSiri Hustvedt's essay collection explores motherhood, maternal and misogyny, and the transformative power of art. It ranges across artistic mothers, psychoanalysis, science, literature, and ethnography, combining assured erudition with playful questioning. Hustvedt's voice is consistent, combining intelligence, sensuality, and wisdom. Her novels have received acclaim, and she is also admired as an essayist. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 13 October 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal, and misogyny. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, science, literature, and ethnography, this is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFierce, moving, and witty, it warns against drawing hard and fast borders where none exist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe voice is consistent, combining assured erudition with more playful questioning, always thoughtful and capable of surprising shifts of register and even genre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Feigel, Guardian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Siri Hustvedt: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHustvedt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalman Rushdie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHilary Mantel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer novels have received a deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist. . . . in this regard, I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObserver \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 218g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 197 x 128 x 16 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781529376715\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44097756102906,"sku":"9781529376715","price":8.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1665753951673_book.jpg?v=1665819436","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/mothers-fathers-and-others-new-essays-9781529376715","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}