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.