The Sorrows of an American
by Siri Hustvedt | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0340897074 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0340897074 Global Overview for this book
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"When Erik Davidsen, a psychiatrist, discovers a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his dead father's papers, he hopes it will help him penetrate the secrets of a man he never fully understood. But as he reads his father's records - of his childhood in rural Minnesota during the Depression and time as a soldier in the Second World War - other puzzles intrude: why is a dubious journalist plaguing his sister? And who is stalking his new tenant, the young Jamaican artist he has begun to fall for?
Compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting, The Sorrows of an American probes the mysteries of the heart and mind to dazzling effect in a tale of the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the next."
"When Erik Davidsen, a psychiatrist, discovers a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his dead father's papers, he hopes it will help him penetrate the secrets of a man he never fully understood. But as he reads his father's records - of his childhood in rural Minnesota during the Depression and time as a soldier in the Second World War - other puzzles intrude: why is a dubious journalist plaguing his sister? And who is stalking his new tenant, the young Jamaican artist he has begun to fall for?
Compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting, The Sorrows of an American probes the mysteries of the heart and mind to dazzling effect in a tale of the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the next."
