The Book Show - Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables

December 05, 2023 00:27:26
The Book Show - Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables
The Book Show
The Book Show - Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables

Dec 05 2023 | 00:27:26

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Show Notes

“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today,” says a character in “The Vulnerables,” the ninth novel by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez. “The Vulnerables” offers a meditation on our contemporary era, asking how present reality affects the way a person looks back on their past.

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