Mothers, Fathers, and Others
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About The Book
Described as “a 21st-century Virginia Woolf” in the Literary Review (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. Mothers, Fathers, and Others is a polymath’s journey into urgent questions about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art.
This 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.
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Why We Love It
“I can think of few people who embody the definition of a polymath better than Siri Hustvedt. She’s a literary superstar, but she’s also a scholar of art history and neurology and she regularly publishes work in scientific journals and lectures on psychiatry. Needless to say, it’s impossible to read a work of Siri’s without learning something new. But while this collection showcases Siri’s expansive intellect, it is also her most personal and intimate yet, and I love the way she delves into her family history and her memories of her parents and grandparents to produce a book that is as moving as it is illuminating.”
—Carina G., Senior Editor, on Mothers, Fathers, and Others
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (December 7, 2021)
- Runtime: 12 hours and 40 minutes
- ISBN13: 9781797134918
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