When Chris Kraus an unsuccessful artist pushing 40 spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick she falls madly and inexplicably in love enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy. Blurring the lines of fiction essay and memoir Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant fierce and funny as ever.