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Title	:	What I Loved
Author	:	Siri Hustvedt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 370 pages
Published	:	2003 by Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton) (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Art

What I Loved

Siri Hustvedt

Paperback | Pages: 370 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 14780 Users | 1242 Reviews

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I have rarely read a novel of such intensity. And it touches on so much: the art world as well as art itself, relationships of many kinds, family, love, loss, psychology and the outsider, the world that is New York City, personas......much more that I'm forgetting (or avoiding for spoilers sake). But then is is titled "What I Loved" and it lives up to it's title.

In addition to being one of the most intense reading experiences, in many ways this has been one of the most unusual. At times I felt I was reading, not a novel, but a memoir, the actual life story of an aging art historian and university professor looking back on who and what had figured prominently in his life---what he had loved.

The story takes place in the art and university worlds of New York City, but it is not necessary,in my opinion, to be a part of them to become engaged in Leo's life and story. His story of finding a work of art he likes, the artist who becomes his true friend; two families whose lives intermingle over decades.

The art world is a large part of this story and descriptions of various works of art can occasionally become long, somewhat rambling sidetracks. But these sidetracks always have connections to the central story if you are patient. Hustvedt also portrays the less savory side of the art world but this is once again through those many aspects of "what I loved."

And supporting all of the story is masterful prose and excellent timing of presentation. The pacing and control, emotions--everything struck me as perfectly done. Hustvedt had me in the palm of her hand. (Even a section that was a bit over the top was over the top in just the right way.)

I'm trying to be careful not to come close to any spoilers in this review which could dampen the emotional impact of this novel for other readers. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who feels a spark of interest in a book set in this world, an arrestingly written look back on a life.

As an addendum, I realize that I neglected to say what may (or may not) be obvious. I intend to continue reading the author's works.

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Original Title:	What I Loved
ISBN:	0340682388 (ISBN13: 9780340682388)
Edition Language:	English URL http://sirihustvedt.net/
Setting:	New York State,1975(United States) New York State,2000(United States) New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2003), Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (2004), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2004)

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Leo Hertzberg seeks out Bill Wechsler after he buys one of his paintings, starting a lifelong friendship between the two men. The lives of their two families become entangled in this story about relationships, love, and loss.Leo, an art historian, is the narrator looking back on the last twenty-five years in a book divided into three sections. The first part sets us in the New York City world of artists, academics, and intellectuals. There are beautiful, detailed descriptions of Bill's art and

I consider this book to be truly wonderful. My fellow London commuters clearly thought I was crazy as I cried over passages on a number of trains. I think the past tense in the title succinctly communicates the loss dealt with by Hustvedt.I didn't initially like the descriptions of the art installations, and had difficulty visualising them. As I progressed through the novel I began to enjoy them more.

A long time ago, when I was studying writing with Gerald Murnane, he told us of an author, I cant remember his name, who would stop reading books the moment he came to a sentence that was pretentious. More than that, he would literally break the spine at that page so that the book would always open where he was forced to stop reading.I finished this book but if I had been that author, whose name I cant recall, the point where this book would always fall open would be the first page of part two

Wow!

This is a book, like most amazing books, which is about how exhausting and glorious and terrible it is to live. Especially if you are the one who lives. A new favorite. I soak in her prose, whether I planned to or not. More soon.



...Bill, who never bored me, because when I was near him I felt his weight. The man was heavy with life. So often it's lightness that we admire. Those people who appear weightless and unburdened, who hover instead of walk, attract us with their defiance of ordinary gravity. He had always been a stone, massive and hulking, charged from within by magnetic power. I was pulled toward him, more than ever before. I'm angry to have turned the last page on this spectacular novel. I cannot express how