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.
Told with the gripping pace of a straightforward mystery tale... A natural born storyteller INDEPENDENT
'Dark and compelling... Webster's hot-house atmosphere and collection of oddballs and ireaks are brilliantly evoked' LITERARY REVIEW
A gorgeously eager heroine... the work has a proper, hypnotically dark, mystery at its heart' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Fiction with exquisite control and subtlety' WHO WEEKLY, AUSTRALIA
'Full of humour, surprise and powerful images... Hustvedt's real triumph is to take the ordinary and make it strange while showing how all strangeness is rooted in the ordinary' OBSERVER
'She writes like a dream'
GQ
Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published in the United States in 1992 and subsequently translated into eight foreign languages. She is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You, and her work has been published in the Paris Review, Fiction and Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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