'Iris Vegan is a graduate student at Columbia University in New York whose vivid encounters with a series of strange and sometimes nameless characters are powerful enough to convince the reader that the world previously seen as normal has completely ceased to ecxist... Gripping...A complex exploration of the nature of the self, executed in polished and immediate prose THE TIMEL
'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche... The quality and spareness of her prose, the intensity of her imagination, are at work on one of the most macabre terrains of the 20th century-New York' DAILY TELEGRAPH
"It has vivid and compelling characters; it is scary, sinister and readable...a very smart novel' INDEPENDENT
Sexy without being steamy, intelligent without being complicated NER STATESMAN
A work of dizzying intensity completely urban and modern... an intriguing and sure-handed debut by a writer of eloquent and vivid disposition' DON DELILLO
A harsh, dark, dangerous piece of prose... Sharply readable, quirky and entertaining in its witty observation of student and city life, but the whole resonates with shocking force
Soft cover book in excellent condition
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