Annie Walton Doyle

Musings in lockdown: The Vulnerables, by Sigrid Nunez, reviewed

Marooned in Manhattan with a stoned student and precocious parrot for company, our elderly narrator despairs of the novel’s future when life is so much stranger than fiction

Sigrid Nunez in New York in 2018. [Getty Images] 
issue 20 January 2024
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  • The Vulnerables

    Sigrid Nunez

    Virago, pp. 256, £16

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