The Blazing World - Siri Hustvedt
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2014, With The Blazing World, internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt, who has long been celebrated for her beguiling, lyrical prose (The Sunday Times Books, London), tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored or dismissed by critics, Burden conducts an experiment she calls Maskings: She presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female identity., The three solo shows are successful, but when Burden finally steps forward triumphantly to reveal herself as the artist behind the exhibitions, there are critics who doubt her. The public scandal turns on the final exhibition, initially shown as the work of acclaimed artist Rune, who denies Burdens role in its creation. What no one doubts, however, is that the two artists were intensely involved with each other. As Burdens journa
