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  • The Blindfold

  • By: Siri Hustvedt
  • Narrated by: Sasha Pick
  • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Blindfold

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Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: An inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with.

An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.
©1993 Siri Hustvedt (P)2013 Hodder & Stoughton
Literary Fiction
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"Gripping...A complex exploration of the nature of the self, executed in polished and immediate prose" (The Times)
"It has vivid and compelling characters; it is scary, sinister and readable ... a very smart novel" (Independent)

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