The Summer Without Men (22 page)

A Plea for Eros

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

POETRY

Reading to You

THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Hustvedt, Siri.

The summer without men : a novel / Siri Hustvedt. — 1st ed.

       p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-57060-6

  1.  Women poets—Fiction.   2.  Divorced women—Fiction.   3.  Interpersonal relations—Fiction.   4.  Psychological fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3558.U813S86 2011

813'.54—dc22

2010042380

First Edition: May 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-9625-9

First Picador eBook Edition: April 2011