{"product_id":"elizabeth-finch-a-novel","title":"Elizabeth Finch: A novel","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the best-selling, award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I’ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I’ve met this year have faded.\" –John Self, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eElizabeth Finch,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45557169684692,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/92DA3DC3-6193-4B8E-BB7A-4DFC1FCE3C03.jpg?v=1712137322","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/elizabeth-finch-a-novel","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}