Elizabeth Finch
A novel
From the Booker Award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, sparking a man's deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography.
"I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." —John Self, The Times (UK)
This novel of unrequited platonic love takes aim at the singular character of the exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, adrift in his 30s, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deeply fascinated by this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his children drift from his grasp, Neil hangs tight to Finch and her unorthodox application of history and philosophy to the practical matters…
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July 18, 2023
JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty-four previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prix Médicis and Prix Femina in France, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
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Elizabeth Finch
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The Noise of Time
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Keeping an Eye Open
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Homage to Hemingway
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Levels of Life
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Through the Window
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Pulse
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The Sense of an Ending
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The Best of Frank O'Connor
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