The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller - Couverture souple

Nunez, Sigrid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349012814 ISBN 13 : 9780349012810

Editeur : Virago, 2019

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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)

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)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend, which won the National Book Award. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Tin House, The Believer and newyorker.com. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature.

Sigrid's honors and awards include a Whiting Writer's Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. The Friend won the 2018 National Book Award. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. In spring, 2019, she will be visiting writer at Syracuse University. Sigrid has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and of several other writers' conferences across the country. She lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0349012814
• ISBN 13: 9780349012810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224