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(0)Siri Hustvedt
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling down a rabbit's hole of personal and psychological intrigue....
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
