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The Summer Without Men
by, Danielle Sherwood
July 12, 2011

Don’t let the jacket copy and title fool you. No chick lit fodder beckons in Siri Hustvedt’s newest fiction: The Summer Without Men (Picador, April 26, 2011). The antics of Mia Fredrickson’s young and turbulent neighbors, the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop, and her mother’s senior circle composed of the wise and nurturing “Five Swans” provides the context for deep intellectual passages and keeps… [Read More]

Filed Under: book review, fiction, history and memory, Jane Austen, love and marriage, poets, question of difference, Siri Hustvedt, Summer Reading, The Summer Without Men
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