加载中…【西瑞·阿斯维特Siri Hustvedt】
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WeeklyThe ardent exchange of ideas underlies all manner of
passionate action in Hustvedt's third novel (after The Enchantment
of Lily Dahl), a dark tale of two intertwined New York families.
"What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view
or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once
intimately known?" So muses Columbia University art historian Leo
Hertzberg as he recalls the love affair between artist Bill
("Seeing is flux") Wechsler and his model/second wife, Violet, whom
Leo secretly loves almost as much as his own wife, Erica. Leo and
Bill become friends when Leo buys a huge portrait of Violet, the
first painting Bill has ever sold, and the two are inseparable ever
after. Erica and Bill's first wife, Lucille, give birth to sons in
the same year and, soon afterward, the Wechslers buy a loft in the
same SoHo building. When the boys are four, Bill and Lucille are
divorced, and Bill marries Violet. Linked by their love of art and
language (Erica is an English professor and Violet a Ph.D. student
with a specialty in 19th-century forms of madness), the two couples
talk insatiably about art and life, celebrating triumphs and
weathering tragedy together. In its second half, the novel shifts
into the terrain of the psychological thriller, as Bill and
Lucille's son, Mark, a dangerously charming boy, grows up and slips
into a sinister New York club scene. So solid and complex are
Hustvedt's characters that the change in pace is effortlessly
effected-the plot developments are the natural extension of the
author's meticulous examination of relationships and motives. In
considering Violet, Leo observes, "Unlike most intellectuals, [she]
didn't distinguish between the cerebral and the physical." The same
distinctions are blurred in this gripping, seductive novel, a
breakout work for Hustvedt.-- didn't distinguish between the
cerebral and the physical." The same distinctions are blurred in
this gripping, seductive novel, a breakout work for
Hustvedt.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library JournalAfter buying an astonishing painting in a SoHo
gallery, art historian Leo Hertzberg tracks down the artist, Bill
Wechsler, and they launch a lifelong friendship with all the
attendant joys and sorrows. There's great in-house enthusiasm for
Hustvedt's third novel.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information,
Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition
of this title.
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