Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Author: Sally Rooney

Here is the extraordinary, thrilling new novel from Sally Rooney, author of the internationally bestselling Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Beautiful World, Where Are You tells the story of Alice and Eileen, two best friends approaching their thirties, and on very different trajectories.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Italy with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young–but life is catching up with them.

They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

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If you love Sally Rooney – and I do, I think she’s a unique, spiky, marvelous voice – this will be a blast. The structure, part epistolary, part unusually removed narration, is fascinating and Alice (a Rooney surrogate, in my reading) and Eileen are terrific leads. The test of multi-perspective, I think, is a feeling of loss every time the book pivots, followed quickly by a renewed interest, the reading speeding as it goes. That was the case here. Adam Dalva                                                                                            rated it: 5.0 from 5.0

sally rooney: i brought you a rich, successful author who falls for her tinder date and two childhood best friends who’ve always loved each other me: thank you sally rooney: and they’re pretty me: thank you sally rooney: pretty DEPRESSED me: sally, no! M.                                                                                                          rated it: 5.0 from 5.0