The Resource The friend, Sigrid Nunez
The friend, Sigrid Nunez
Resource Information
The item The friend, Sigrid Nunez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The friend, Sigrid Nunez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- 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 traumatised 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 unravelling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 212 pages
- Note
- Subtitle from dust jacket
- Isbn
- 9780735219458
- Label
- The friend
- Title
- The friend
- Statement of responsibility
- Sigrid Nunez
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueFriends' death
- trueGreat Danes
- trueSurvivors of suicide victims
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
- trueEviction
- Animals -- Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueCoping
- trueWomen and dogs
- trueHuman/animal relationships
- truePsychological fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- trueGrief in animals
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueGrief
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 traumatised 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 unravelling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion
- Summary
- Becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends
- Award
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- National Book Award for Fiction, 2018.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10619961
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nunez, Sigrid
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Animals
- Women
- Friendship
- Grief
- Female friendship
- Human-animal relationships
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The friend, Sigrid Nunez
- Note
- Subtitle from dust jacket
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059797396
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 212 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735219458
- Lccn
- 2017011191
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981507732
- Label
- The friend, Sigrid Nunez
- Note
- Subtitle from dust jacket
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059797396
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 212 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735219458
- Lccn
- 2017011191
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981507732
Subject
- Animals -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- trueEviction
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueFriends' death
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueGreat Danes
- trueGrief
- Grief -- Fiction
- trueGrief in animals
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
- trueHuman/animal relationships
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSurvivors of suicide victims
- Women -- Fiction
- trueWomen and dogs
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Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre , Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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