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The Blazing World

Siri Hustvedt

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#200 of 8,085 books · #96 in Fiction

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2014). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

After years of having her work ignored or dismissed by critics, artist Harriet Burden decides to conduct an experiment: she presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female identity. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune, who claims the work as his own. After critics side with him, Burden and Rune suddenly find themselves in a charged and dangerous game—one that ends in his bizarre death. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet's journals assembled after her death, this work unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet's critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies.

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Publisher
Sceptre Press
ISBN-13
9781476747255
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Feminism and gender bias in art worldIdentity and deceptionArtistic recognition and betrayal

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