Sigrid Nunez




Sigrid Nunez

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Sigrid Nunez is an author of five novels including her debut, A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel (1996, ISBN 0-06-092684-8), Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, and The Last of Her Kind. She often addresses class and violence in her novels. She chronicles a time period, such as the 1960's, socially, politically, and intimately in the eyes of women, and is perceptive about character and opinions. She is a creative writing teacher at Columbia University. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring, 2005. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Richard and Hinda Rosen...more




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The Last of Her Kind: A Novel The Last of Her Kind: A Novel
by Sigrid Nunez
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A Feather on the Breath of God... A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel
by Sigrid Nunez
avg rating 3.78 — 116 ratings — published 1995
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For Rouenna: A Novel For Rouenna: A Novel
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avg rating 3.72 — 43 ratings — published 2001
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Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbu... Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
by Sigrid Nunez
avg rating 3.55 — 22 ratings — published 1998
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Naked Sleeper: A Novel Naked Sleeper: A Novel
by Sigrid Nunez
avg rating 3.21 — 24 ratings — published 1996
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For Rouenna For Rouenna
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In Liebe, Lyle. In Liebe, Lyle.
by Sigrid Nunez
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"Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

I like to remember when I was one of them, or to pretend that I am one of them still, sensing that restless man at my back and half turning, no, turning all the way, open-armed, saying, Pick me, pick me."
Sigrid Nunez (The Last of Her Kind: A Novel)
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