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From the author of The Enchantment of Lily Dahl comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages."A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real." - Julie Myerson, GuardianSiri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975 when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a lifelong friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's - an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art. Still, the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. "Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling... she has created a conceptually exciting work that demands we think, but which still allow

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Author

Hustvedt, Siri

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466828360

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (1,111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14