Sigrid Nunez, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-25430-8
When Nunez's unnamed narrator publishes her first book, she is flooded by letters, not only from fans and detractors, but from people she once knew, however glancingly. At the start of this piercing, sophisticated third novel by Nunez (A Feather
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Sigrid Nunez, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (375p) ISBN 978-0-374-18381-3
When Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshmen roommates at Barnard College, Georgette marvels that her privileged, brilliant roommate envies Georgette's rough, impoverished childhood. Through the vehicle of this fascinating...
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Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-766-8
The intellectually rigorous and grimly prophetic latest from Nunez (The Last of Her Kind) initially resembles any number of coming-of-age yarns, except that most adolescences don't coincide with apocalyptic flu pandemics and the rise of insular...
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Sigrid Nunez, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18 (180p) ISBN 978-0-06-017151-3
In this luminous debut novel about a young woman of mixed race, Nunez writes with fierce clarity, rare empathy and sharp humor of immigrant dreams and frustrations. The vulnerable, nameless narrator, who grows up in a Brooklyn housing project in the
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Sigrid Nunez, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017276-3
Nunez's first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God, was a work of stark insight and poetic imagination; her second displays the range of her talent, especially her sensitivity to the wellsprings of character and behavior. The story of a troubled...
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Sigrid Nunez, Atlas & Co., $20 (144p) ISBN 978-1-935633-22-8
The iconoclasm of the fearless intellectual Susan Sontag, who died in 2004 of leukemia, began to be revealed with her son David Rieff's memoir, Swimming in a Sea of Death, and continues with novelist Nunez's (Salvation City) thorny remembrance of...
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Sigrid Nunez. Riverhead, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1944-1
In the riveting new novel from Nunez (Salvation City), the unnamed narrator thinks in the second person, addressing an unnamed old friend, a man, who has recently and unexpectedly committed suicide. The two first met decades earlier, while she was...
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