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Elizabeth Finch

3.1/5 ( ratings)

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography

This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp, Elizabeth's application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does. In Elizabeth Finch, we are treated to everything we cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unorthodox forms love can take between two people, a compelling swerve into nonfictional material , and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Release: August 16, 2022

ISBN: 059353543X

ISBN 13: 9780593535431

Elizabeth Finch

3.1/5 ( ratings)

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography

This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp, Elizabeth's application of her material to the matter of daily living remains important to him, even after her death, in a way that nothing else does. In Elizabeth Finch, we are treated to everything we cherish in Barnes: his eye for the unorthodox forms love can take between two people, a compelling swerve into nonfictional material , and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Release: August 16, 2022

ISBN: 059353543X

ISBN 13: 9780593535431

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