What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION With an introduction by Megan Nolan, bestselling author of Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Feelings '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

Breathtaking * James Urquhart, Independent *
A love story with the grip and suspense of a thrillerIt makes you ponder human existence with a peculiar mixture of stoicism and wonder. * Noonie Minogue, Times Literary Supplement *
Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling ... she has created a conceptually exciting work that demands we think, but which still allows us room to feel. * Alex Clark, Sunday Times *
Substantial, moving and beautifully written * Christian House, Independent on Sunday *
A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real * Julie Myerson, Guardian *
A consummately intelligent novel, highly literate but also intensely moving. * Jackie McGlone, Scotsman *
Riveting ... erudite and immensely detailed ... a rich, densely textured and utterly absorbing novel * Lesley Glaister *
Subtle, compassionate, wise, and supremely intelligent, it's a striking achievement. * Kieron Corless, Time Out *
Hustvedt ranks amongst the finest American writers working today * Jennifer O'Connell, Sunday Business Post *
a powerful novel of love, loss and longing, exquisitely written * Anne Donovan, Sunday Herald *

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels including the international bestseller What I Loved, The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Memories of the Future, as well as five collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros, Living, Thinking, Looking and A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women. She has also published a poetry collection, Reading To You, and the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Hustvedt has won the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the European Essay Prize for her essay The Delusions of Certainty. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Title	What I Loved
Author	Siri Hustvedt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2003-08-04
Number of pages	384
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