The Friend

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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 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 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 But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Free Download [ The Friend ] By [ Sigrid Nunez ] – kino-fada.fr 3.5 Loss and loneliness are the main themes explored in this novel about friendship and the life of writing When a woman loses her best friend and mentor to suicide she tries to understand his actions, deal with the loss of this person, and takes on the responsibility of caring for his aged, Great Dane, named Apollo Apollo is grieving the loss of his former friend and master, and so together they travel a new road.The writing is elegant, spare, recalling literary entities who were also focused 3.5 Loss and loneliness are the main themes explored in this novel about friendship and the life of writing When a woman loses her best friend and mentor to suicide she tries to understand his actions, deal with the loss of this person, and takes on the responsibility of caring for his aged, Great Dane, named Apollo Apollo is grieving the loss of his former friend and master, and so together they travel a new road.The writing is elegant, spare, recalling literary entities who were also focused on their pets, finding in them many timeshumanity in them than in their regular relationships The writing is non linear, free flowing thoug...REVIEW TO COME my new quarterly literary fiction box from pagehabit has arrived oh, man i have a LOT of catching up to do but what fun it will be to do soI had too many problems with this book to give itthan three stars, but there is a twist at the end that I liked a lot This turned the book around for me In the story, a woman tells of a man who commits suicide It is interesting to toy with the idea of who exactly is the friend in the title I am not going to spoil the book by givingaway I do not think the GR book description accurately describes the book it leads you in the wrong direction The central focus is about the art of I had too many problems with this book to... Dino is a lot of dog Thirty four inches from shoulder to paw A hundred and eighty pounds Attached was a photo the two of you, cheek to jowl, the massive head at first glance looking like a pony s Later you decided against the name Dino He was too dignified for a name like that, you said What did I think of Chance Chauncy Diego Watson Rolfe Arlo Alfie Any of those names sounded fine to me In the end you called him Apollo.The main character of this book goes unnamed She s a single, Dino is a lot of dog Thirty four inches from s...DNFNormally I would never review a book I didn t finish Actually, I normally would never not finish a book However, I hated this book so much that I had no choice If you want to read about a main character who is mourning a sad older white man who takes advantage of his students and then justifies it because it s the women s fault because they have all the power, or read about how much harder it is to be a writer than a sex traffic victim, then this is for you Also, the main character reads DNFNormally I would never review a book I didn t finish Actually, I normally would never not finish a book However, I hated this book so much that I had no choice If you want to read about a main character who is mourning a sad older white man who takes advantage of his students and then justifies it because it s the women s fault because they have all the power, or read about how much harder it is to be a writer than a sex traffic victim, then this is for you Also, the main character reads a book about a man who was in love with his dog a book recommended by the dead creep she s mourning and then she shows signs of being disappointed that there was no bestiality in the book This book is a piece of trash and I cannot believe anyone would finish it, let alone give it a good rating I m a librarian and believe in the sanctity of books but if I hadn t borrowed this piece of crap from my local library, I would have thrown it in the trash to save someone else ...At one point in the book the unnamed protagonist has a meeting with her old writing professor and close friend He complains that his students now demand that the writer be a good person They can t stand a book written by a flawed person This turns into a discussion about how most writers are privileged The societal turn is towards writers having an obligation to tell the stories of the less fortunate I thought of that part of the book when I saw some of the negative reviews for this book Y At one point in the book the unnamed protagonist has a meeting with her old writing professor and close friend He complains that his students now demand that the writer be a good person They can t stand a book written by a flawed person This turns into a discussion about how most writers are privileged The societal turn is towards writers having an obligation to tell the stories of the less fortunate I thought of that part of the book when I saw some of the negative reviews for this book Yes the protagonist is flawed Yes the person she is mourning for was flawed, deeply so This isn t a book to sing the ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here The Friend by Sigrid Nunez offers a look into the literary world through a very specific lens I was happily surprised by how much I enjoyed paging through this one Nunez frames a story of grief through the recounting of a longstanding friendship It read equal parts introspection and observation In many ways, it feels like the main character s way to recognize and grapple with these feelings in a productive manner, view spoiler a suspicion confirmed as the book comes to a close hide spoil The Friend by Sigrid Nunez offers a look into the literary world through a very specific lens I was happily surprised by how much I enjoyed paging through this one Nunez frames a story of grief through the recounting of a longstanding friendship It read equal parts introspection and observation In many ways, it feels like the main character s way to recognize and grapple with these feelings in a productive manner, view spoiler a suspicion confirmed as the book comes to a close hide spoiler What was happily su...I almost bailed on this a couple of times, but it is short and has gotten such critical acclaim that I decided to power through There is a thin story about a woman grief stricken over the death of a friend and how she cares for his dog But a lot of the book is just ramblings about various ...Strongly recommended to writers and literary readers who are in mourning and or are an animal s human companion.I read this book to fill the prompt of A book about death or grief for the 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge The book s inside cover blurb made it sound sublimely fitting A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog , so when I received this book in the mail, I immediately shelved the book I originally had planned for this prompt and started reading this instead.I almost wish I hadn t.I don t feel like the book ever lived up to its own bl I read this book to fill the prompt of A book about death or grief for the 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge The book s inside cover blurb made it sound sublimely fitting A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between ...

The Friend
  • English
  • 17 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 213 pages
  • 0735219443
  • Sigrid Nunez
  • The Friend