Memories Of The Future Av Siri Hustvedt

<p><b>FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>WHAT I LOVED</i></b><br><b><br>''Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt'' <i>Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>''A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'' <i>Literary Review</i></b><br><br><b>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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br><b>''Provocative and mysterious . . . comic and </b><b>sensual'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><br><b>PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:</b><br><br>''Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom'' <b>Salman Rushdie</b><br><br>''One of our finest novelists'' <b>Oliver Sacks</b><br><br>''Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch'' <i><b>Financial Times</b></i></p>