{"product_id":"ghost-stories-a-memoir-siri-hustvedt","title":"Ghost Stories: A Memoir Siri Hustvedt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis Siri Hustvedt's tender memoir of the forty-three years she spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster: from their first encounter in 1980s New York, to his death in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44003582902337,"sku":"9781399753852","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/3179\/3984\/files\/ghoststoriessirihustvedt.jpg?v=1780372380","url":"https:\/\/qagoma.store\/products\/ghost-stories-a-memoir-siri-hustvedt","provider":"QAGOMA Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}