The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

ISBN 10: 0593715519 / ISBN 13: 9780593715512

Published by Riverhead Books, 2023

About this Item

SIGNED. NF/NF. First Edition. Stated 1st Printing. Signed on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. Light creases to back corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with a faint crease near the front corner, otherwise it is Fine. Removable SIGNED COPY sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 242 pages. 5¼ x 8¼" tall. The narrator, an unnamed writer, moves into a friend?s luxury apartment in Manhattan to care for a sociable macaw named Eureka when his owner gets stuck on the West Coast. It?s the spring of 2020 and America is in Covid lockdown. The bird needs company. Macaws have egos. Like the rest of us; they can go mad if neglected for too long. "The Vulnerables" offers a meditation on our contemporary era, asking what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Vulnerables
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593715519
• ISBN 13: 9780593715512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Signed Books

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Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection

“I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny — good and strong company.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“With the intimacy and humor of a great conversation, this novel makes you feel smarter and more alive.” —People Magazine

“An ode to our basic need to connect with other beings, be they human or animal, even in a global crisis that told us to stay apart.” —NPR


Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.

Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

About the Author

Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, and What Are You Going Through, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the National Book Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Guggenheim. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. She lives in New York City.