Siri Hustvedt

Broschiertes Buch

The Shaking Woman

Or A History of My Nerves

Beschreibung

By the bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED, an intimate and enlightening account of her search for the key to her mysterious nervous disorder, which brilliantly illuminates the connection between mind and body.

Autor

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize and the PEN America Literary Award, and she has been awarded the LA Times Book Prize, the Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Princess of Asturia Award and the Openbank Literature Award, among others. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. 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, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 164g
• ISBN-13: 9780340998779
• ISBN-10: 0340998776
• Artikelnr.: 28890547

Rezensionen

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