![]() ![]() ![]() Addressing him in the second person, she recounts her friend's three troubled marriages and his career as a college professor. The unnamed narrator, a writer living in Manhattan, recalls the life and recent suicide of her best friend and mentor, also unnamed. ![]() The novel contains autobiographical elements, and is written in the stream of consciousness style, which Nunez has said allowed for "essay writing" and "meditation" within the book. Nunez also drew inspiration from Elizabeth Hardwick's novel Sleepless Nights. A friend of Nunez's died by suicide as she was writing The Friend. Nunez was inspired to write the novel in part due to acquaintances and friends convinced their lives would end by suicide. The book concerns an unnamed novelist who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The Friend is a novel by the American writer Sigrid Nunez published by Riverhead Books in 2018. ![]()
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