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Title: The Blazing World
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Siri Hustvedt
Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez, Eric Meyers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-14
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 115 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
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 journals reveal, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous game that ended with the mans bizarre death.
Ingeniously presented as a collection of texts compiled after Burdens death, The Blazing World unfolds from multiple perspectives. The exuberant Burden speaksin all her joy and furythrough extracts from her own notebooks, while critics, fans, family members, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of who she was, and where the truth lies.
From one of the most ambitious and internationally renowned writers of her generation, The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle, it explores the deceptive powers of prejudice, money, fame, and desire. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, Hustvedts new novel is a bold, rich masterpiece, one that will be remembered for years to come.
