A Plea For Eros - Essays on art, love and desire from 'a 21st-century Virginia Woolf' - Literary Review

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN<BR><BR>'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes' <BR>Observer<BR><BR>'Thoughtful and sensuous'<BR>Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>This 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.<BR><BR>Wise, honest and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the world we inhabit.<BR><BR>'One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction... Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays'<BR>Los Angeles Times