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by Sigrid Nunez
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The Friend A Novel Sigrid Nunez 9780735219441 Amazon “In this slim but pitchperfect novel a writer loses her best friend and mentor suddenly without explanation…Wry and moving The Friend is a love story a mania story and a recovery story” —Vanity Fair “A poignant reflection on loss and companionship” —Marie Claire The Friend by Sigrid Nunez The Friend is a rarity a novel that is wistful and elegiac but also rich with gentle humor Its the story of a woman her literary mentor who kills himself a tiny an aging Great Dane The Friend A Novel Kindle edition by Sigrid Nunez The Friend is one of those rare novels that in the end makes your heart beat slower” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A beautiful book … crammed with a world of insight into death grief art and love” —Wall Street Journal THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez Kirkus Reviews Quietly brilliant and darkly funny Nunezs Sempre Susan 2011 etc latest novel finds her on familiar turf with an aggressively unsentimental interrogation of grief writing and the humancanine bond After her best friend and mentors suicide an unnamed middleaged writing professor is bequeathed his wellbehaved beast of a dog The Friend A Novel by Sigrid Nunez Paperback Barnes “Everywhere in this novel it is impossible to separate love and companionship from Friend is one of those rare novels that in the end makes your heart beat slower” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A beautiful book … crammed with a world of insight into death grief art and love” —Wall Street Journal The Friend by by Sigrid Nunez Summary and reviews Book Summary A moving story of love friendship grief healing and the magical bond between a woman and her dog When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog The Friend by Teresa Driscoll Community Reviews Sophie is on a train back from London desperate to get to the hospital where she has been informed her son and his friend are both in critical condition after an accident She left Ben in the care of Emma the woman she befriended after her arrival in their village with her young son The Friend Is No Shaggy Dog Story NPR The Friend Is No Shaggy Dog Story Sigrid Nunezs new novel follows a woman mourning the suicide of a close friend mentor and fellow writer — and the upheaval after she reluctantly takes in his huge bereft and smelly Great Dane Review Book Reviews The Friend Is No Shaggy Dog Story The Friend Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane The New York Times Mourning With the Help of a Great DaneMourning With the Help of a Great Dane These details are prelude to announcing that the unnamed heroine of Nunez’s dry allusive and charming new novel “The Friend” is a writer and a cat person More specifically she is a cat person in a 500squarefoot Manhattan apartment who inherits after the suicide of a friend his harlequin Great Dane The Friend Sigrid Nunez “The Friend Sigrid Nunez’s sneaky gut punch of a novel is a consummate example of the humananimal tale… It’s tone is dry clear direct—which is the surest way to carry off this sort of closeup study of anguish and attachment”
