![]() ![]() ![]() Despite their close friendship for more than 30 years, the idea that the woman would look after his dog if he died has never been discussed: she finds out the (not particularly welcome) news when his third wife invites her for a coffee. The inheritance, like his death (a suicide), is unexpected. ![]() The Friend is about an unnamed middle-aged woman who inherits a dog after her best friend, a male creative writing professor, dies and leaves his great Dane to her. I know it pre-dated What Are You Going Through, but it felt very much like a companion piece to that novel - and maybe that’s why it didn’t really work for me: I simply read them too close together. But its rambling nature, its lack of plot and structure, tested my patience at a time when I had little patience to test. She was a new discovery for me back in January, when I fell in love with her wonderful novel The Last of her Kind, but I’m fairly certain that if I had read The Friend first I probably wouldn’t have bothered reading anything else by her. This is the third book by Sigrid Nunez that I have read this year. Fiction – Kindle edition Virago 224 pages 2019. ![]()
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