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The friend : a novel / Sigrid Nunez.

Nunez, Sigrid, (author.). Huber, Hillary, (narrator.).

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 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 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525528357
  • ISBN: 0525528350
  • ISBN: 9780525528340
  • ISBN: 0525528342
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (06 hr., 02 min., 51 sec.))
  • Edition: [Unabridged].
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Audio, 2018.

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Read by Hillary Huber.

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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 June #2

    Hillary Huber takes on human and canine characters with mindful, measured narration. The woman—an unnamed writing professor—has lost her best friend and mentor to suicide. When she's summoned postmortem by Wife Three (Wife One is a friend, Wife Two not at all, Wife Three the grieving widow), she's bequeathed a Great Dane, Apollo, whose own mourning for his lost master might eclipse that of the human survivors. Despite a no-dogs policy in her rent-controlled building, the woman reluctantly accepts the canine burden, and—as these relationships often go—the dog, in all his reluctant, oversized, growling glory, proves to be (wo)man's best friend. Huber equally matches Nunez's (Salvation City) unblinking, straightforward presentation, never devolving into despair. From (dead) old friend to new (dog) friend, Nunez deftly plots a path toward emotional recovery. VERDICT Pet lovers and book lovers will appreciate Nunez's pithy ruminations on writing, relationships, wrongful death, and, of course, the healing power of our four-legged friends. ["Literature nerds, creative writing students, and dog lovers will find this work delightful": LJ 12/17 review of the Riverhead hc.]—Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC

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