Elizabeth Finch - Julian Barnes
Category: Literature
Tags: Literature, Adults
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Release date: August 16, 2022 Duration: 05:17:19, A magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a mans 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 Culture and Civilisation, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this withholding yet commanding woman., While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neils grasp, Elizabeths 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 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 swe
