Name: smile??'s review of The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
Item: The Friend: A Novel
Rating: 4.5
Author: smile??

Sigrid Nunez

The Friend: A Novel

smile??

oh to love and lose an artist. devoured it in half of JFK->SFO am i crying because im on a plane or because of the book probably both it also made me laugh out loud. Winn Dixie for grown ups. 

Jules 

- first of all: as a general warning, i would say it's best to not read any reviews of this book unless you've finished it. just keep that in mind before reading the rest of this

- the prose in this is fantastic, and has really sold me on sigrid nunez as a writer. very very quotable story, some really excellent sentences throughout the whole thing

- not necessarily a novel... more of a collection of ramblings re: suicide, grief, friendship and companionship and what causes us to make choices in these areas. truly the plot is kind of background entertainment (even with the fun twist with the unreliable narration). the prose and research are really what shine to me

- despite being a book that is about suicide and death and loss of friends, it's quite funny! really witty, there were a lot of one liners that tickled me

- first of all: as a general warning, i would say it's best to not read any reviews of this book unless you've finished it. just keep that in mind before reading the rest of this

- the prose in this is fantastic, and has really sold me on sigrid nunez as a writer. very very quotable story, some really excellent sentences throughout the whole thing

- not necessarily a novel... more of a collection of ramblings re: suicide, grief, friendship and companionship and what causes us to make choices in these areas. truly the plot is kind of background entertainment (even with the fun twist with the unreliable narration). the prose and research are really what shine to me

- despite being a book that is about suicide and death and loss of friends, it's quite funny! really witty, there were a lot of one liners that tickled me

Lauren Shull

I tried and tried to finish this book. I made it half way before giving up. It reads like a stream of consciousness journal. It wouldn't have bothered me if it didn't seem so tedious. For only being 200pages it took a very long time for her to acquire the dog. It just felt annoying and I wanted to keep skimming because the narrator consistently over explained.

Melody Izard

What is love? How can we deal with grief of those we love? What is a life well lived?

Jason Porterfield

This is so beautifully written and evocative of of a friendship - or two friendships. There’s a touch of “kids these days” codgerism that I totally recognize from academia, but it’s forgivable here.

Olivera Mitić

Išla sam u biblioteku da pozajmim jedan drugi roman (koji nisu imali), a izašla sam potpuno spontano s ovim. Korice su mi u trenutku privukle pažnju i setila sam se da je Prijatelj ona jedna knjiga koju malo malo neko na internetu opiše kao "hidden gem".

I stvarno jeste. Uvukla mi se pod kožu i sad imam želju da napišem pismo Sigrid Nunjez da joj kažem hvala.

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