The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez book review

Book Review: 'The Vulnerables,' by Sigrid Nunez

Set during the pandemic, Sigrid Nunez's new novel, “The Vulnerables,” is a story of unlikely companionship and personal reflection.

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In The Vulnerables, a parrot provides a vital connection to life. A well-heeled acquaintance is stranded abroad; their housesitter has fled. The ...

REVIEW: The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez - Sam Still Reading

For the most part, this novel is fascinating about the types of characters the pandemic throws together and eerily reminiscent of the discomfort ...

Life During an Uncertain Spring in "The Vulnerables"

Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel, The Vulnerables, uses the 2020 pandemic as an inciting incident for an examination of the uncertainties and vulnerabilities that we ...

I Must Be Making It All Up: On Sigrid Nunez's “The Vulnerables”

The plot of Sigrid Nunez's new novel The Vulnerables follows one such domino row. A friend of a friend is stranded in Los Angeles with no one to take care of ...

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez book review - The Washington Post

In 'The Vulnerables,' a parrot saves a woman from loneliness. Sigrid Nunez's ruminative novel takes place in New York during the height of the coronavirus ...

The Vulnerables: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez

Conclusion: Perhaps what is wanted in our own dark anti-truth times, with all our blatant hypocrisy and the growing use of story as a means to distort and ...

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez - Goodreads

The Vulnerables is a perfect description of life in lockdown without all the hand-wringing and soul-searching. The author takes the part of lead character.

Review: The Vulnerables | Columbia Magazine

With The Vulnerables, a seemingly random, often discursive, thoroughly wonderful new book, Sigrid Nunez '72BC, '75SOA has written not so much a novel as ...

All Book Marks reviews for The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

But that would be selling it short. For The Vulnerables is a profound novel of ideas that explores grief, aging, friendships, writing, literature, and death.

Sigrid Nunez, The vulnerables (#BookReview) | Whispering Gums

A personal narrative spanning the period between 1941 and what was then the present day, 2006: the autobiography of a woman that was also a kind of collective ...

THE VULNERABLES - Kirkus Reviews

In Nunez's latest, set against the early days of New York City's Covid lockdowns, a woman finds unlikely—and uneasy—companionship in a troubled college ...

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Nunez captures an unusual friendship during an extraordinary time in 2020. By Sarah Neilson Published: Nov 7, 2023. In celebrated writer Sigrid Nunez's new ...

Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables - The Brooklyn Rail

Although not a novel in a traditional sense (what does that really mean these days?), this is a moving contemplation of lockdown, extinction, the nature of ...

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez - Roelia Reads

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez is a novel that explores the effects of the COVID pandemic on the lives of a writer and her unexpected companions.

Day by Michael Cunningham; The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez review

In the end, the novel emerges as a subtle portrait of the emotional and psychological strife that can be passed down the generations when ...

'The Vulnerables' Review: Birds of a Literary Feather - WSJ

The book, which won a National Book Award, is a moving and witty meditation on loss, consolation, the art of fiction and the many shapes that ...

Book Marks reviews of The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

A meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history.

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Near the end of “The Vulnerables,” Nunez's narrator shifts her attention to the state of books: their worth, who reads them, the futility of ...