The Blazing World : A Novel (Paperback)

from joyhclark

I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of this book; the exploration of gender bias and sexism was interesting and spoke to the feminist in me. That being said, the prose became so cumbersome that I almost gave up several times. I also could have done without the psychoanalysis part, although it app...

from Eyejaybee

This is a very clever book, but one that left me utterly cold., The basic premise was enticing: a widowed female artist, unable to secure any recognition for her work in a largely male-dominated market conceals her identity and passes her own work off as that of three male artists, thereby demons...

from SChant

I mostly enjoyed the sardonic central character railing against the sexism of the New York art world with humour and inventiveness, but I feel it would have worked better 100 pages shorter. There was a lot of repetition in the later sections, and what felt like extraneous commentaries popping in....

from Eyejaybee

This is a very clever book, but one that left me utterly cold., The basic premise was enticing: a widowed female artist, unable to secure any recognition for her work in a largely male-dominated market conceals her identity and passes her own work off as that of three male artists, thereby demons...

from capiam1234

I liked the way the story weaves throughout the different masks. I'm just not as interested in the art world after reading this and the Goldfinch, but it was a well written book within a book.