Deal | Plea For Eros

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN’A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes’ Observer’Thoughtful and sensuous’Daily TelegraphThis illuminating collection brings together Siri Hustvedt’s earliest essays, exploring the themes that have preoccupied her writing throughout her career: memory and imagination, psychology and art, love and desire. Drawing on her personal experience – as daughter, sister, mother and wife; student, teacher, reader and writer – she illustrates fundamental aspects of our lives.Wise, honest and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the world we inhabit.’One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays’Los Angeles Times