Elizabeth Finch : a novel /

Elizabeth Finch : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Barnes, Julian, author.
Edition:	First United States edition.
Imprint:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Description:	179 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction. Women teachers -- Fiction. Students -- Fiction. Women -- Death -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships. Students. Teacher-student relationships. Women -- Death. Women teachers. Fictional Work Fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12751695

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ISBN:	9780593535431 059353543X 9780593535448
Notes:	Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2002.
Summary:	"From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and 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 Neil's story, 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 (this time, through Neil's obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following on notes Elizabeth left for him to discover after her death), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives"--
Other form:	Online version: Barnes, Julian. Elizabeth Finch. First United States edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022 9780593535448

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Summary:	From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending , a magnetic tale 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.<br> <br> "I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." -John Self, The Times <br> <br> 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 "Culture and Civilisation," 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.<br> <br> 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 (this time, through Neil's obsessive study of Julian the Apostate, following on notes Elizabeth left for him to discover after her death), and the forcefully moving undercurrent of history, and biography in particular, as nourishment and guide in our current lives.
Item Description:	Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2002.
Physical Description:	179 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780593535431 059353543X 9780593535448