Memories Of The Future

Author: Siri Hustvedt

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  • : 32.99 AUD
  • : 9781473694422
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
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  • : October 2018
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  • : Siri Hustvedt
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  • : 1904
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Description

A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?

Reviews

Hustvedt is far more intersting than the Mrs Paul Auster label attributed to her. Set in the 1970s, a young girl from the midwest US moves to New York City and becomes obsessed with her neighbour. Her writings, scribbles derived from that which she has eavesdropped, are discovered 40 years later. Hustvedt blurs the line between fact and fiction and will pull you into her world quickly.


Elisa, Book Grocer


 


Among the many riches of Siri Hustvedt's portrait of a young woman finding her way as an artist are her reflections on how acts of remembering, if they reach deep enough, can heal the broken present, as well as on the inherent uncanniness of feeling oneself brought into being by the writing hand. Her reflections are no less profound for being couched as philosophical comedy of a Shandean variety. - J. M. Coetzee