Memories of the future

Resource Information

The work Memories of the future represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ruth Faulkner Public Library - City of Belmont. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Memories of the future

Statement of responsibility

Siri Hustvedt ; drawings by the author

Creator

• Hustvedt, Siri

Author

• Hustvedt, Siri

Illustrator

• Hustvedt, Siri

Subject

• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Young women -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Authors -- Fiction
• Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Reminiscing -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Humorous fiction

Language

eng

Summary

This is a provocative novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, Then tells the indelible story of a young Midwestern woman's fixation with her mysterious neighbor over the course of a threadbare year in 1970s New York. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?

Cataloging source

QPPL

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult