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Dec 13, 2018 · The novel, an acerbic but often poignant exploration of love, friendship, death, grief, art and literature, received this year’s National Book Award for fiction and drew euphoric reviews from...
Nov 24, 2018 · "The Friend," by Sigrid Nunez, is a taut, tight, lyrical little novel on the enormous questions of love, loss and art and even the question of how to love an enormous dog - in this case, a Great...
Feb 23, 2019 · The Friend by Sigrid Nunez review: Barking brilliant. This experimental novel narrated by a dog is clever, mature, entertaining and delightful. Expand. Apollo, a Great Dane, is the friend of the...
Feb 6, 2018 · Sigrid Nunez. 3.77. 43,884 ratings6,428 reviews. 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.
Feb 6, 2018 · BOOK REVIEW. by Sally Rooney. Quietly brilliant and darkly funny, Nunez's (Sempre Susan, 2011, etc.) latest novel finds her on familiar turf with an aggressively unsentimental interrogation of grief, writing, and the human-canine bond.
Feb 5, 2018 · In Sigrid Nunez’s charming new novel, “The Friend,” a woman in a small Manhattan apartment inherits a large dog from a man who committed suicide.
Feb 6, 2018 · The New York Times. 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.
The Friend is a novel by the American writer Sigrid Nunez published by Riverhead Books in 2018. The book concerns an unnamed novelist who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor.
Mar 9, 2018 · In Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, “The Friend,” a woman grieving the suicide of her mentor adopts his Great Dane, a 180-pound behemoth who is mourning, too.
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez’s sneaky gut punch of a novel, is a consummate example of the human-animal tale. It presents itself as a thinly fictionalized grief memoir in which an unnamed, Nunez-like writer, after the suicide of her beloved mentor, adopts his heartbroken Great Dane, Apollo ...tone is dry, clear, direct — which is the surest way ...
