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