{"product_id":"the-blazing-worldbooks","title":"The Blazing World","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Fiction of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003eFiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com’s Best of 2014 Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,” \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a new novel called “searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet’s critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, Katie Roiphe declared it “a spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e or Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing” (NPR), Hustvedt’s new novel is “Blazing indeed:...with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity”(\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come.","brand":"Hustvedt, Siri","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47109903450336,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c1569611-8711-440b-96cd-840937afde0b.jpg?v=1741531642","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blazing-worldbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}