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Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0312425538    
Release Date: 2005-12-27

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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, Hustvedts 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 writers 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 othersFitzgerald, Dickens, and Henry Jameswith revelatory insight, and a practitioners understanding of their art.

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