The Friend: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Amazonundefined

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A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - now in a stunning new edition as part of Virago's 50th anniversary Five Gold Reads series
WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER * 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 READSWhen 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.
'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
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
Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.
Recenzja
A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year
Financial Times
A beautiful book . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love
Wall Street Journal
Very very clever. Mature. Entertaining. Eminently readable and re-readable. In short, absolutely delightful.
Irish Times
Delicious
... An
intensely pleasurable
read because it is so
accessible, capacious and clever
Sunday Times
A
pitch-perfect
novel ... Wry and moving,
The Friend
is a love story, a mania story and a recovery story
Vanity Fair
Loved this. A funny, moving examination of love, grief, and the uniqueness of dogs
Graham Norton
A
sneaky gut punch
of a novel . . .
a consummate example of the human-animal tale
Harper's Magazine
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
The Economist
I loved it . . . It's
one of my favourite books
and it moved me
Whoopi Goldberg, The View
A
poignant
reflection on loss and companionship
Marie Claire
Often
as funny as it is thoughtful
,
The Friend
is an elegant meditation on
grief, friendship, healing, and the bonds between humans and dogs
Buzzfeed
An
elegant and darkly humorous
meditation on grief and companionship, it's
a great read
- whether or not you're obsessed with canines
Shondaland.com
Charming
...
the comedy here writes itself
... The snap of her sentences sometimes
puts me in mind of Rachel Cusk
New York Times
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
New York Times Book Review
In
crystalline prose
, Nunez creates an impressively controlled portrait of the 'exhaustion of mourning'
New Yorker
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.
The Lady
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
-- Anne Enright
The Times
O autorze
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
What Are You Going Through.
She is also the author of
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag.
Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.