The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves: 'An extraordinary double story' - Oliver Sacks

ISBN-13: 9780340998779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str.

Siri Hustvedt

Opis

By the best-selling author of 'What I loved', this is an account of Siri Hustvedt's search for the key to her mysterious nervous disorder and a fascinating exploration of the mind and its connection with the body.

Recenzje

Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth...Hustvedt's erudite book deepens one's wonder about the relation of body and mind. Oliver Sacks

O autorze

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international bestseller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros, Living, Thinking, Looking and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. She has also published a poetry collection, Reading To You, and the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.

Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.