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A Plea for Eros (Paperback)

by Siri Hustvedt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Sceptre (13 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340839783
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340839782
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,623 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Thoughtful, sensuous essays…her enthusiasms are oddly infectious'


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‘She strides across these pages: a 6ft tall Amazonian New Yorker…by whom we are at once riveted and faintly disconcerted…Hustvedt is a lucid writer, whose spare, elegant prose wears lightly its eclectic reference points.’

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‘Thoughtful, sensuous essays…her enthusiasms are oddly infectious’

( Daily Telegraph )

'A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller. It makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder' (Times Literary Supplement on WHAT I LOVED )

'A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real' (Julie Myerson, Guardian on WHAT I LOVED )

'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 on WHAT I LOVED )

'A startlingly good novel, tautly written and very sexy' (Marie Claire on THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAH )

'She writes like a dream' (GQ on THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mind invigorating essays on life love and thought, 11 Jul 2007
If you like Siri Hustvedt's style of writing, the way she uses her knowledge on art, psycho analysis, philosophy etc in her writing, you will like her essays where she expresses these thoughts not through her characters but through her own voice.
For many it may sound a bit snobbish, too high brow, too New York-superior? etc..however the more you read you will get into her flow her life.
It is because first of all, her writing is beautiful, the way she uses chooses her words is so precise, and that in itself makes one really appreciate her writing. Also the way she elaborates the events in her life, you end up empathizing with her...
She has the talent to use words to tell you a free flowing story which constantly stimulate and provoke new thoughts as well as emotions.


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