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|title=The Blazing World
|sort=Blazing World, The
|publisher=Sceptre
|date=March 2014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779648</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>B00FRKPFQW</amazonus>
|website=http://sirihustvedt.net/
|video=Z1DcWiy5xDA
|summary=Through a collection of fragmentary sources, the novel builds a posthumous picture of Harriet Burden, a larger-than-life feminist and modern artist who released her work under male pseudonyms. An engrossing puzzle as well as a bold commentary on gender identity and the fractured self. Stylistically risky and fiercely intelligent.
|cover=1444779648
|aznuk=1444779648
|aznus=B00FRKPFQW
}}
'All intellectual and artistic endeavours…fare better in the mind of the crowd when the crowd knows that somewhere behind the great work or the great spoof it can locate a cock and a pair of balls.' Thus we are introduced to the unforgettable Harriet Burden – larger-than-life, six-foot-tall amazon artist – and to some of the novel's essential elements: musing on what makes intellectual products successful in a postmodern marketplace, feminist resentment of the overvaluing of male achievement, and an unapologetic, playful boldness with language.