'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks
'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'A novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energy and thought' The Times
Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. In this mesmerising tour de force, Burden's story emerges after her death through a variety of sources, including her (not entirely reliable) journals and the testimonies of her children, lover and a dear friend. Then her last collaborator meets a bizarre end. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. 'Playful, ebullient, brainy' Financial Times
'A truly wonderful intellectual work that makes you think and laugh' Daily Mail WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION
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