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Siri Hustvedt

Start date: September 15, 2015

Finish date: October 1, 2015

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Dec 10, 2017 Dree rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: the-northeast, 1001-read, 2017-reads

I found this book completely brutal to read. The first section is fine--to much 3D art talk for me, but whatever. Then the beginning of section 2 is just awful. AWFUL. And then section3 is just nonstop painfulness.

As the wife and mother of two teen boys, this all just hits on every fear a parent has. I have had 2 good friends of young kids widowed in the last 3 years. I have dealt with adult sociopaths in my life--I cannot even begin to imagine parenting one (though I can't imagine what the kid ...more

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Jul 03, 2011 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2012, bookmooch, america, mtbr-challenge-2012, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, contemporary-fiction, art-fiction

Just arrived from Belgium through BM.

The plot starts in 1975 in New York and tells Leo's story when he discovers a painting by an unknown artist.

When he discovered the true painter's identity, he described how their families’ lives are entwined even when a tragedy takes place. ...more

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