Book description
Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A
nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster,
Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from
New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the
target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines
of small town life. 'A taut and convincing drama, as well as an
intriguing metaphysical thriller.' Siri Hustvedt's first novel, THE
BLINDFOLD, was published by Sceptre in 1993 and her second, THE
ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL, followed in 1997. Both were highly acclaimed
and translated around the world, while part of THE BLINDFOLD was made
into a film (
Of Women and Magic
, directed by Claude Miller). Her third novel, WHAT I LOVED, was
published in 2003 to even greater acclaim and has been an international
success; her next novel, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN, followed in 2008.
Her work has been published in The Paris Review
, Fiction
, and The Best American Short Stories
, and she is also the author of READING TO YOU, a poetry collection, and
three collections of essays, YONDER, MYSTERIES OF THE RECTANGLE: Essays
on Painting, and A PLEA FOR EROS, and a non-fiction work, THE SHAKING
WOMAN: A HISTORY OF MY NERVES. Her most recent novel is THE SUMMER
WITHOUT MEN. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Paul
Auster.
