The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award - now a major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray
Autor Sigrid Nunezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2019
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS AND BILL MURRAY
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 100 BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
'A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Loved this. A funny, moving examination of love, grief, and the uniqueness of dogs' GRAHAM NORTON
'Delicious' SUNDAY TIMES 100 BEST SUMMER READS
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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, a huge Great Dane, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.
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 unravelling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.
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'Very, very clever. Mature. Entertaining. Eminently readable and re-readable. Absolutely delightful' IRISH TIMES
'I loved it . . . It's one of my favourite books and it moved me' WHOOPI GOLDBERG
'A perfect novel . . . It's my favorite kind of masterpiece - one you can put into anyone's hand' EMMA STRAUB
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * A Financial Times 2018 Best Book: Critics Pick * A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018 * A Bustle Best Fiction Book of 2018 * An NPR Best Book of 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349012810
ISBN-10: 0349012814
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349012814
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year
A beautiful book . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love
Very very clever. Mature. Entertaining. Eminently readable and re-readable. In short, absolutely delightful.
Delicious . . . An intensely pleasurable read because it is so accessible, capacious and clever
A pitch-perfect novel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, a mania story and a recovery story
Loved this. A funny, moving examination of love, grief, and the uniqueness of dogs
A sneaky gut punch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale
The book is an intimate, beautiful thing, deceptively slight at around 200 pages, but humming with insight . . . [an] artfully discursive meditation on friendship, love, death, solitude, canine companionship and the life of an aging writer in New York .. peppered with wry observations
I loved it . . . It's one of my favourite books and it moved me
A poignant reflection on loss and companionship
Often as funny as it is thoughtful, The Friend is an elegant meditation on grief, friendship, healing, and the bonds between humans and dogs
An elegant and darkly humorous meditation on grief and companionship, it's a great read - whether or not you're obsessed with canines
Charming . . . the comedy here writes itself . . . The snap of her sentences sometimes puts me in mind of Rachel Cusk
The contemplation of writing and the loss of integrity in our literary life form the heart of the novel . . . Nunez's prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts - the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence. She addresses important ideas unpretentiously and offers wisdom for any aspiring writer who, as the narrator fears, may never know this dear, intelligent friend - or this world that is dying. But is it dying? Perhaps. But with The Friend, Nunez provides evidence that, for now, it survives
In crystalline prose, Nunez creates an impressively controlled portrait of the 'exhaustion of mourning'
Astonishingly fresh and tinged with sadness . . . a highly entertaining, uplifting book exploring the magical bond between humans and canines. A must-read for dog-lovers
She has a wry compassion, and an eye for the kind of detail only grown-ups can catch. The books feel lived-in rather than hard-earned, the voice is smart and kind
After suffering the loss of an old friend and adopting his Great Dane, the book's heroine muses on death, friendship, and the gifts and burdens of a literary life. Out of these fragments a philosophy of grief springs like a rabbit out of a hat; Nunez is a magician
The Friend is a perfect novel about the size of grief and love, and like the dog at the book's center, the book takes up more space than you expect. It's my favorite kind of masterpiece - one you can put into anyone's hand
'A beautifulbook . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love' WallStreet Journal
When a womanunexpectedly loses a lifelong friend and mentor to suicide, she finds herselfburdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against griefis intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane that hadbeen devoted to its suddenly vanished master, and by the threat of eviction:dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. TheFriend is both a meditation on friendship, loss andbereavement, and a celebration of the wonder and healing power of thehuman-canine bond.
'A pitch-perfectnovel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, amania story, and a recovery story' Vanity Fair
'An intimate, beautiful thing, humming withinsight' The Economist
'Dry, allusive,charming . . . Nunez has an interesting mind, and she shakes the dust fromevery topic - grief, writing, academia, sexual politics - she picks up' New York Times Critics' Top Books of2018
'A sneaky gutpunch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale' Harper'sMagazine
A beautiful book . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love
Very very clever. Mature. Entertaining. Eminently readable and re-readable. In short, absolutely delightful.
Delicious . . . An intensely pleasurable read because it is so accessible, capacious and clever
A pitch-perfect novel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, a mania story and a recovery story
Loved this. A funny, moving examination of love, grief, and the uniqueness of dogs
A sneaky gut punch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale
The book is an intimate, beautiful thing, deceptively slight at around 200 pages, but humming with insight . . . [an] artfully discursive meditation on friendship, love, death, solitude, canine companionship and the life of an aging writer in New York .. peppered with wry observations
I loved it . . . It's one of my favourite books and it moved me
A poignant reflection on loss and companionship
Often as funny as it is thoughtful, The Friend is an elegant meditation on grief, friendship, healing, and the bonds between humans and dogs
An elegant and darkly humorous meditation on grief and companionship, it's a great read - whether or not you're obsessed with canines
Charming . . . the comedy here writes itself . . . The snap of her sentences sometimes puts me in mind of Rachel Cusk
The contemplation of writing and the loss of integrity in our literary life form the heart of the novel . . . Nunez's prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts - the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence. She addresses important ideas unpretentiously and offers wisdom for any aspiring writer who, as the narrator fears, may never know this dear, intelligent friend - or this world that is dying. But is it dying? Perhaps. But with The Friend, Nunez provides evidence that, for now, it survives
In crystalline prose, Nunez creates an impressively controlled portrait of the 'exhaustion of mourning'
Astonishingly fresh and tinged with sadness . . . a highly entertaining, uplifting book exploring the magical bond between humans and canines. A must-read for dog-lovers
She has a wry compassion, and an eye for the kind of detail only grown-ups can catch. The books feel lived-in rather than hard-earned, the voice is smart and kind
After suffering the loss of an old friend and adopting his Great Dane, the book's heroine muses on death, friendship, and the gifts and burdens of a literary life. Out of these fragments a philosophy of grief springs like a rabbit out of a hat; Nunez is a magician
The Friend is a perfect novel about the size of grief and love, and like the dog at the book's center, the book takes up more space than you expect. It's my favorite kind of masterpiece - one you can put into anyone's hand
'A beautifulbook . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love' WallStreet Journal
When a womanunexpectedly loses a lifelong friend and mentor to suicide, she finds herselfburdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against griefis intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane that hadbeen devoted to its suddenly vanished master, and by the threat of eviction:dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. TheFriend is both a meditation on friendship, loss andbereavement, and a celebration of the wonder and healing power of thehuman-canine bond.
'A pitch-perfectnovel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, amania story, and a recovery story' Vanity Fair
'An intimate, beautiful thing, humming withinsight' The Economist
'Dry, allusive,charming . . . Nunez has an interesting mind, and she shakes the dust fromevery topic - grief, writing, academia, sexual politics - she picks up' New York Times Critics' Top Books of2018
'A sneaky gutpunch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale' Harper'sMagazine
Notă biografică
Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into thirty languages.