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The Blindfold

The Blindfold

Hustvedt, Siri

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Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1501171720
ISBN13: 9781501171727
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From the author of The Blazing World, a work of dizzying intensity...eloquent and vivid (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances--physical, cerebral, and existential--when she moves to New York City.

Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strong life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.

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