The Resource The friend, Sigrid Nunez
The friend, Sigrid Nunez
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The item The friend, Sigrid Nunez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Forsyth County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all 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 Forsyth County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit."-NPR "[A] sneaky gut punch of a novel...a consummate example of the human-animal tale."-Harper's Magazine 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. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780735219465
- 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
- trueElectronic books
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
- trueEviction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueCoping
- trueWomen and dogs
- trueHuman/animal relationships
- truePsychological fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueGrief in animals
- trueFemale friendship
- trueGrief
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit."-NPR "[A] sneaky gut punch of a novel...a consummate example of the human-animal tale."-Harper's Magazine 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. 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
- LC call number
- PS3564.U485
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human-animal relationships
- Female friendship
- Electronic books
- Psychological fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The friend, Sigrid Nunez
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780735219465
- Lccn
- 2017016355
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 4988728B-1AB3-45BB-B303-1DDCD9BF8C5F
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)981761711
- (OCoLC)ocn981761711
- Label
- The friend, Sigrid Nunez
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780735219465
- Lccn
- 2017016355
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 4988728B-1AB3-45BB-B303-1DDCD9BF8C5F
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)981761711
- (OCoLC)ocn981761711
Subject
- trueCoping
- trueElectronic books
- trueEviction
- trueFemale friendship
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- trueFriends' death
- trueGreat Danes
- trueGrief
- trueGrief in animals
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
- trueHuman/animal relationships
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSurvivors of suicide victims
- trueWomen and dogs
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