{"product_id":"the-sorrows-of-an-american-paperback","title":"The Sorrows of an American - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSiri Hustvedt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's\u003ci\u003e The Sorrows of an American \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral. Erik is a psychiatrist dangerously vulnerable to his patients; Inga is a writer whose late husband, a famous novelist, seems to have concealed a secret life. Interwoven with each new mystery in their lives are discoveries about their father's youth--poverty, the War, the Depression--that bring new implications to his relationship with his children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis masterful novel reveals one family's hidden sorrows in an elegant meditation on familial grief, memory, and imagination (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSiri Hustvedt \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of an American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Enchantment of Lily Dahl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Blindfold\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Without Men\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a growing body of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eLiving, Thinking, Looking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Eros\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMysteries of the Rectangle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand an interdisciplinary investigation of the body and mind in \u003ci\u003eThe Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. She lives in Brookly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.26 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762425200928,"sku":"9780312428204","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/514fd439817091789a4e9f1f3bc1c66e.webp?v=1780221159","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-sorrows-of-an-american-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}