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Apr 14, 2022 · A book about a man's intellectual crush on his professor, who dies and leaves him notes on Julian the Apostate. The novel explores love, friendship, biography and history through the lens of a fictional character and a historical figure.
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Elizabeth Finch. London: Jonathan Cape, 2022. [Visit the Penguin Random House website.] [Unbound page proofs; Bound UK Proof] Elizabeth Finch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. [Uncorrected proof] Elizabeth Finch. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2022. Elizabeth Finch. London: Vintage, 2023. Bolinda Publishing, 2022. Read by Justin Avoth. 5 hours, 17 m...
24 March 2022 - Anna Orhanen. "A UK Exclusive Q&A with Julian Barnes on Elizabeth Finch," Waterstones Blog. Julian Barnes with Nihal Arthanayake. The Penguin Podcast, 21 February 2023.
'[Barnes] is always clever, often original and unusually funny... Elizabeth Finch...offers plenty to chew on...with barely a sentence in it that doesn't have some nutritional value.'' - John Self, The Times 'A singular tale.'' - Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail, *Books to Look Out For 2022* 'Everything Barnes writes changes everything... Barnes's latest...
And yet it seems that Elizabeth Finch will be one “project” he finishes. Thanks to her, he learns about Julian the Apostate, who was the last pagan Roman emperor. After Elizabeth dies, Neal inherits all of her papers, journals, and books.
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Aug 17, 2022 · “Elizabeth Finch” is about an adult student who becomes the inheritor of a beloved teacher’s intellectual work.
Aug 16, 2022 · His latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, is a dual-pronged exploration of both personal and ancient history which asks, "Why should we expect our collective memory — which we call history —...
About Elizabeth Finch From the bestselling, 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.
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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.
