02755cam a2200445 i 4500 1262065199 TxAuBib 220127s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022004061 9780593535431 hardcover 059353543X hardcover (OCoLC)19957 TxAuBib rda Barnes, Julian, author. Elizabeth Finch : a novel / Julian Barnes. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 179 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. ""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""-- Provided by publisher. Teacher-student relationships Fiction. Teacher-student relationships. Women teachers Fiction. Women teachers. Students Fiction. Students. Women Death Fiction. Women Death. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Man-woman relationships. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Fictional Work. Psychological fiction. Novels. Historical fiction.