Name: I Loved You More
ISBN: 9780986000782

Tom Spanbauer

Follows the development of a love triangle over twenty-five years as Ben, Ruth, and Hank fall in and out of love with one another against the backdrop of New York, Portland, and places in between, in a world of struggling artists and writers.

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I Loved You More

Tom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love story triangle akin to The Marriage Plot and Freedom, only with a gay main character who charms gays and straights alike. I Loved You More is a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak, covering twenty-five years in the life of a striving, emotionally wounded writer. In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and devotion he needs, though they cannot find true happiness together. Then Hank reappears and meets Ruth, and real trouble starts. Set against a world of struggling artists, the underground sex scene of New York in the 1980s, the drab, confining Idaho of Ben’s youth, and many places in between, I Loved You More is the author’s most complex and wise novel to date.

Laura Wilson

Very emotional and written in a way that feels honest. There isn’t much a plot and it follows relationships. It’s definitely not rainbows and sunshine, and more cloudy skies that never clear. Definitely not for those who are looking for a happy read. 

I Loved You More A Novel

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