![]() 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. 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. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. ![]() ![]() From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative 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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