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What I Loved

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340682388

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

With an introduction by Megan Nolan

‘Siri Hustvedt’s most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs’
Salman Rushdie

‘Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling’
Sunday Times

A big, wide, sensuous novel – clever, sinister, yet attractively real’
Guardian

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.

This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons – born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

‘One of our finest novelists’
Oliver Sacks

‘Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch’
Financial Times

‘Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt’
Washington Post

Reviews

James Urquhart, Independent
Breathtaking
Noonie Minogue, Times Literary Supplement
A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller. It makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder.
Alex Clark, Sunday Times
Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling ... she has created a conceptually exciting work that demands we think, but which still allows us room to feel.
Christian House, Independent on Sunday
Substantial, moving and beautifully written
Julie Myerson, Guardian
A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real
Jackie McGlone, Scotsman
A consummately intelligent novel, highly literate but also intensely moving.
Lesley Glaister
Riveting ... erudite and immensely detailed ... a rich, densely textured and utterly absorbing novel
Kieron Corless, Time Out
Subtle, compassionate, wise, and supremely intelligent, it's a striking achievement.
Jennifer O'Connell, Sunday Business Post
Hustvedt ranks amongst the finest American writers working today
Anne Donovan, Sunday Herald
a powerful novel of love, loss and longing, exquisitely written
The Times
[A] strange, addictive masterpiece . . . I read it in 2003, the year it came out, and haven't stopped thinking about it since