{"product_id":"mothers-fathers-and-others-essays-paperback","title":"Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSiri Hustvedt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in this \"profound\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted--between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork--which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDescribed as \"a 21st-century Virginia Woolf\" in the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review \u003c\/i\u003e(UK), Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. \u003ci\u003eMothers, Fathers, and Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a polymath's journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis moving, fierce, and often funny book is finally about the fact that being alive means being in states of constant, dynamic exchange with what is around us, and that the impulse to draw hard and fast conceptual borders where none exist carries serious theoretical and political dangers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSiri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, five collections of essays, two works of nonfiction, and seven novels, including the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Summer Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. She is the recipient of many other awards, including the Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize, and the Sigourney Award for expanding psychoanalytic thought. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.31 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332745793773,"sku":"9781982176402","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/e6Xy8iHcyJ9781982176402.webp?v=1784969080","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/mothers-fathers-and-others-essays-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}