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Also by Siri Hustvedt.

Also by Siri Hustvedt. Sometime after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in the hospital. The banality of the story-the fact that it is repeated every day ad nauseam by men who discover all at once or gradually that what IS does not HAVE TO BE and then act to free themselves from the aging women who have taken care of them and their children for years-does not mute the misery, jealousy, and humiliation that comes.

Justine Jordan admires Siri Hustvedt's joyful exploration of changing female identities. Hustvedt makes it all seem effortless. Mia rages and repents, but she never loses her mordant sense of humour. I took it like a woman," she writes of her husband's decision to move in with the Pause.

So begins Siri Hustvedt’s novel The Summer Without Me. The Summer Without Men is a beautifully written book with many layers. The "Pause" Mia's husband asks for in their marriage (so he can cheat without guilt) that tips her over into madness is just one of them

So begins Siri Hustvedt’s novel The Summer Without Men. He is Boris, renowned rat-scientist and husband of thirty years to Mia Friedricksen – poet, professor, mother, and central character in the story. The "Pause" Mia's husband asks for in their marriage (so he can cheat without guilt) that tips her over into madness is just one of them. Aging, coming of age, and female identity and all that it entails are also richly developed themes in the book. I loved the characters in The Summer Without Men and found them to be realistically written.

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The Summer Without Men. For Frances Cohen

The Summer Without Men. For Frances Cohen. The banality of the story - the fact that it is repeated every day ad nauseam by men who discover all at once or gradually that what IS does not HAVE TO BE and then act to free themselves from the aging women who have taken care of them and their children for years - does not mute the misery, jealousy, and humiliation that comes.

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction.

Siri Hustvedt nother like popcorn kernels in a microwave bag. I made this sorry observation as I lay on my bed in the South Unit, so heavy with Haldol I hated to move. The nasty rhythmical voices had grown softer, but they hadn’t disappeared, and when I closed my eyes I saw cartoon characters racing across pink hills and disappearing into blue forests.

SIRI HUSTVEDT was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She moved to New York City in 1978 and earned her P. in English literature at Columbia University in 1986. She is the author of several novels, including The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and The Blindfold, as well as the collections of essays, A Plea for Eros, Mysteries of the Rectangle, and The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.

At under 200 pages, The Summer Without Men is sprightly and frisky, even as it contends with life-and-death . Perhaps the problem is that Hustvedt herself might not find a summer without men particularly stimulating.

At under 200 pages, The Summer Without Men is sprightly and frisky, even as it contends with life-and-death subjects. Mia breaks into all-cap outbursts. The problem was that any number of Borises were in my head. She cheats on her concept by giving Mia an e-mail stalker who signs himself Mr. Nobody and proves more on her intellectual wavelength than the gals in Bonden. His notes hopped from Leibniz’s ‘Monadology’ to Heisenberg and Bohr in Copenhagen to Wallace Stevens almost without taking a breath.