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'Gripping...A complex exploration of the nature of the self, executed in polished and immediate prose' (The Times )
'It has vivid and compelling characters; it is scary, sinister and readable ... a very smart novel' (Independent )
'Brilliant...A dark, mesmerising debut' (Independent on Sunday )
'A harsh, dark, dangerous piece of prose...Sharply readable, quirky and entertaining in its witty observation of student and city life, but the whole resonates with shocking force' (Vogue )
'A work of dizzying intensity ... an intriguing and sure-handed debut by a writer of eloquent and vivid disposition' (Don DeLillo )
'It has vivid and compelling characters; it is scary, sinister and readable ... a very smart novel' (Independent )
'Brilliant...A dark, mesmerising debut' (Independent on Sunday )
'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche...The quality and spareness of her prose, the intensity of her imagination, are at work on one of the most macabre terrains of the 20th century - New York'
(Daily Telegraph )'A harsh, dark, dangerous piece of prose...Sharply readable, quirky and entertaining in its witty observation of student and city life, but the whole resonates with shocking force' (Vogue )
'A work of dizzying intensity ... an intriguing and sure-handed debut by a writer of eloquent and vivid disposition' (Don DeLillo )
'Sexy without being steamy, intelligent without being complicated'
(New Statesman )Vogue
'A harsh, dark, dangerous piece of prose ... the whole resonates with shocking force'
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first time I read this book I really didn't like it, then I reread it and began to be enchanted. On one level it is the story of the coming of age of Iris Vegan, an intellectually intelligent but emotionally naive midwest girl come to New York to university. Like a little girl in a fairytale she meets a cast of characters on the streets and in the buildings of the urban jungle, the creepy obsessive Mr Morning, the too too cool Stephen and his artistic friends, Iris' professor lover and Iris' own transformation into a she/he wandering the seedier pits of the urban landscape and New York itself. Iris an literature student and she describes the world around her in first person narration through the filter of her heroines. Give it time and it will haunt you.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Siri Hustvedt's novels, to me, are like the literary equivalent of Edward Hopper's paintings: portraying that haunting sense of abandonment and alienation in an anonymous American city landscape. Coincidentally, both The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has a voyeur protagonist watching people through the windows of their apartments at night, a recurring subject of Hopper's work.
Told in four interconnecting short stories, narrator Iris Vegan instantly draws the reader into her offbeat world populated by quirky characters and bizarre situations. Fresh out of Columbia University in New York, the graduate student's exploration and experimentation with the darker side of life is reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis territory in Less Than Zero and a little disturbing to say the least.
Hustvedt's writing is beautiful, though; a deceptively simple spare prose that is polished and powerful. An intelligent and ingenious sexy slow burn of a book that grips you from the onset and makes you think as you savour each lingering sentence.
This is the kind of cult word-of-mouth book college girls will hug and hold dearly with an honest and real female character at the heart of its story who feels like an old friend.
Told in four interconnecting short stories, narrator Iris Vegan instantly draws the reader into her offbeat world populated by quirky characters and bizarre situations. Fresh out of Columbia University in New York, the graduate student's exploration and experimentation with the darker side of life is reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis territory in Less Than Zero and a little disturbing to say the least.
Hustvedt's writing is beautiful, though; a deceptively simple spare prose that is polished and powerful. An intelligent and ingenious sexy slow burn of a book that grips you from the onset and makes you think as you savour each lingering sentence.
This is the kind of cult word-of-mouth book college girls will hug and hold dearly with an honest and real female character at the heart of its story who feels like an old friend.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Bought by chance in a charity shop,it took me a while to get round to read The Blindfold....... Once started I could not put it down! just the book for me, nothing boring about it, not the narrative, characters or the seemingly aphazard chapters, topsy turvy, yet such an excellent picture, account of a person's innards...... the shadowy side of relationships with the whole of life...... I have fallen deeply in love with Siri Hustvedt and will devour all her writings as of now!!! Do the same!!! dead easy to read as well as the language is really everyday....... it's the content that grabs you..... long live good writers! Definitely 5 stars!
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Unusual and Compelling
Siri Hustvedt's debut novel `The Blindfold' is written in the form of four interconnected and very unusual stories which revolve around Iris Vegan, a beautiful, but rather fragile... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Susie B
Maybe I just didn't get it ...
Unlike many of the other reviewers, I only read the book once - and once was enough for me. A collection of various incidences linked to the central character. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Thomas Heneghan
A smart and sexy slow burn of a book
The fabulously original Siri Hustvedt novels, to me, are like the literary equivalent of Edward Hopper's paintings: portraying that haunting sense of abandonment and alienation in... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by Kelvin MacGregor
You had us all fooled Mr Auster....
Great book. It has so much in common with her husband's New York Trilogy. A set of short stories all with a common theme of pretending to be somebody else. Read more
Published on 10 July 2003 by dangermash
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