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What I loved : a novel / Siri Hustvedt.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.U813 W48 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hustvedt, Siri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art historians--Fiction.
- Art historians.
- Vermont.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Married people--Fiction.
- Married people.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Painters--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 370 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, [2003]
- Summary:
- Story 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 and tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story spans twenty-five years and follows the evolution of 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 children, Matthew and Mark. Over the years, they not only enjoy love but endure loss.
- ISBN:
- 0312421192
- 9780312421199
- OCLC:
- 55954145
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