Mothers, Fathers, and Others

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Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling ‘What I Loved’ and Booker Prize-longlisted ‘The Blazing World’.

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Book Title: Mothers Fathers & Others
ISBN: 9781982187897
By Author(s):HUSTVEDT SIRI
By Publisher:SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:TPB

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this profound (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for grantedbetween ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artworkwhich turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.

Described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf in theLiterary Review(UK), Man Booker-longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Bront, and Louise Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.Mothers, Fathers, and Othersis a polymaths journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art.

This moving, fierce, and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant, dynamic exchange with what is around us, and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.

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Book Title: Mothers Fathers & Others
ISBN: 9781529376654
By Author(s):HUSTVEDT SIRI
By Publisher:HODDER UK
Format:TPB

‘Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is’i

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt’s most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny.

Ranging 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. Fierce, moving and witty, it warns against drawing hard and fast borders where none exist.

‘The voice is consistent, combining assured erudition with more playful questioning, always thoughtful and capable of surprising shifts of register and even genre’ Lara Feigel,Guardian

PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

‘Hustvedt 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’Salman Rushdie

‘It is Hustvedt’s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear’Hilary Mantel

‘Her 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 ‘Observer

‘Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt’Washington Post