What I Loved Av Siri Hustvedt

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br><br><b>With an introduction by Megan Nolan, bestselling author of <i>Acts of Desperation </i>and <i>Ordinary Human Feelings</i><br></b><br>''Siri Hustvedt''s most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs''<br><b>Salman Rushdie<br><br></b>''Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling''<br><b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><i>''</i>A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real''<br><b><i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:</b><br><br>''One of our finest novelists''<br><b>Oliver Sacks</b><br><br>''Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch''<br><i><b>Financial Times</b></i><br><br>''Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt''<br><i><b>Washington Post</b></i></p>