"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory.Nunez has a wry, withering wit." -NPR "A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love. "Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York TimesĪ moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. The book concerns an unnamed novelist who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. 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.
Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. To know that there are people out in the world like Ms. In the past eleven years, Sigrid Nunez has written five novels, all of which are subtle investigations of how ones identity is forged in that space between. Not really a dog person herself, the woman is slowly overcome by the dog's silent grief. After a woman loses her friend and mentor to suicide, she agrees to take his dogthe widow, 'Wife Three,' never wanted to keep the rescue. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. She incorporates a story around almost philosophical issues. FebruShare: More The following is from Sigrid Nunez's novel, The Friend.
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