![]() ![]() extraordinary puzzle.” ( The Miami Herald) Full of life and ideas and intellectual prowess, it’s also a compelling story with richly drawn characters. ![]() ![]() “ The Blazing World is unique and recognizably so, a bracing examination of the act of creation, of fame and identity, gender bias and feminism, love and desire, psychology and philosophy. touching conclusion ‘blazes hot and bright’ from the perspective of an aura reader, Harriet's caretaker, whose vision of the artist's work is at once spiritually charged and whimsical.” ( The San Francisco Chronicle) “A glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship. This is a muscular book, and just enough of that muscle is heart.” ( The Boston Globe) Hustvedt’s greatest triumph here is not the feminist argument she makes. ![]() The Blazing World never runs out of steam in dispensing ideas and peeling back layers of truth.” ( Chicago Tribune) “Ingeniously and energetically put together. It's rare to encounter a female protagonist who throws her weight around quite so grandiloquently as Harriet Burden, a heroine who is-well, more like the hero of a Philip Roth or a Saul Bellow novel." ( New York Times Book Review) "The Blazing World offers a spirited nstructed as a Nabokovian cat's cradle.Hustvedt's portrait of the artist as a middle-aged widow is searingly fresh. ![]()
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