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Sigrid Nunez

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Includes the name: Nunez, Sigrid

Image credit: Sigrid Nunez gives a presentation in the Fiction Stage at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Ralph Small/Library of Congress. By Library of Congress Life - 20190831RS0155.jpg, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82899232

Tekijän teokset

The Friend (2018) 1,332 kappaletta
The Last of Her Kind (2005) 506 kappaletta
What Are You Going Through (2020) 419 kappaletta
Salvation City (2010) 275 kappaletta
A Feather on the Breath of God (1995) 242 kappaletta
The Vulnerables (2023) 161 kappaletta
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998) 142 kappaletta
For Rouenna (2001) 88 kappaletta
Naked Sleeper (1996) 56 kappaletta
The Poor Girl 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Avustaja — 627 kappaletta
The Mrs Dalloway Reader (2003) — Avustaja — 426 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Avustaja — 335 kappaletta
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 2019 (2019) — Avustaja — 175 kappaletta
Growing up Asian American: An Anthology (1993) — Avustaja — 101 kappaletta
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta

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There are connections in life, even a life in the midst of a pandemic, that tie our personal joy and pain to those of others. The narrator of The Vulnerables is a writer trapped by circumstance (the circumstance of not owning a second house in the country as it appears most of her friends do) in New York City during COVID. If you recall those early months of 2020, you may also have had the sense that nothing was beyond strange. Even finding oneself in a friend’s palatial Manhattan apartment taking care of their parrot while one’s own apartment was being used by a doctor from Oregon volunteering her services in New York City. If a volatile youth joins you in the apartment — the former caretaker of the parrot — then that too is just one of those things that happen in life. And eventually, perhaps, one’s writer’s block will ease. Maybe.

Filled with beguiling discussions of art and life and seemingly random enthusiasms, Nunez’ novel takes its time to form a clear picture. Like the brain fog often identified as both a symptom of the illness and of isolation anxiety. But give it time and it will reward your patience. A gentle, thoughtful, very human take on vulnerability in uncertain times.

Recommended.
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RandyMetcalfe | 10 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 16, 2024 |
"The Friend" is one of my favorite novels of all time; it and "What are You Going Through" were both 5 stars for me. I was very much looking forward to reading this novel, as I like (perhaps oddly) reading books set during the pandemic. But I'm sorry to report that this just fell short for me. The writing was good, of course, but the removed, discursive style just didn't work when there was no plot to move it along. There was just too much detail about people I really didn't care about - except for Vetch and the parrot.… (lisätietoja)
 
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bobbieharv | 10 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 22, 2024 |
3.5 stars. Well written and narrated. I loved the parts about the dog as well as her relationship with its previous owner. I felt that sometimes the book went on a tangent about writing and/or authors and I don’t connect to this as well.
 
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slittleson | 87 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 2, 2024 |

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