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Siri Hustvedt, whose debut novel The Blindfold was showered with critical acclaim, returns with The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, the coming of age story of a voluptuous and vacuous aspiring actress who lives in a small town in Minnesota. In addition to the Marilyn Monroe-esque title character, Hustvedt provides a bevy of quirky characters including Lily's former high school pal Martin Petersen, who is assembling a collection of corpse photographs, and Edward Shapiro, the college professor and painter whom Lily quickly beds. On top of that, Hustvedt layers on a nice little murder mystery, which Lily investigates and solves.
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Pressestimmen
"Siri Hustvedt writes, literally, like a dream--a dream that's at once intensely romantic and disturbingly eerie. This dark, sexy, spooky novel is an indelibly memorable fiction. Read it and it will haunt you."--Salman Rushdie
"Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor."--Newsday
"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there." --The Village Voice
"She writes like a dream."--GQ
"Highly original...a crystalline blend of innocence and sophistication, irony and candor."--Newsday
"The Enchantment of Lily Dahl has the power to pull readers firmly into its orbit and to keep them there." --The Village Voice
"She writes like a dream."--GQ
Synopsis
Lily Dahl works as a waitress in the shabby but hospitable Ideal Cafi, situated at the heart of the small town of Webster, Minnesota. This is where the Bodler twins come for breakfast, two old men who deal junk and never wash, men who are forever marked by the gruesome murder of their mother by their father.
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Über den Autor
Siri Hustvedt is the author of two previous novels, The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl also available from Picador. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster.
