The Blazing World

Internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored by critics, Harriet conducts an experiment, recruiting three men to present her creations as their own. But when those shows succeed and Burden steps forward to reveal herself, the third man betrays her, and he and Burden find themselves in a charged and dangerous game that ends with the man's bizarre.
death. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts assembled after Harriet's death, this "glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship" (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet's critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies.