A Plea for Eros: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312425531)

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy categorization, elegantly combining intellect, emotion, wit, and passion. With a light touch and consummate clarity, she undresses the cultural prejudices that veil both literature and life and explores the multiple personalities that inevitably inhabit a writer's mind. Is it possible for a woman in the twentieth century to endorse the corset, and at the same time approach with authority what it is like to be a man? Hustvedt does. Writing with rigorous honesty about her own divided self, and how this has shaped her as a writer, she also approaches the works of others--Fitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry James--with revelatory insight, and a practitioner's understanding of their art.

Author: Siri Hustvedt
ISBN-10: 0312425538
ISBN-13: 9780312425531
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2005
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2005 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2005 pg. 1063
Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 118
Vanity Fair 01/01/2006 pg. 52
Library Journal 01/15/2006
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 25