12/20/2023 0 Comments Conversations with friends book cover![]() “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style. a novel of delicious frictions.” - New York “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes. ![]() ![]() Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.” -Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.” -Celeste Ng, “Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast” SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange-and then painful-intimacy. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE AND SLATE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND ELLEįrances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin.WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD. ![]() SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE 2019 TIME 100 NEXT LIST sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”- Entertainment Weekly ![]()
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