![]() ![]() A world that looks much like our often insufferable own, made bearable with sharp dialogue and characters that draw us away from our psyche and into their own. ![]() We fell in love with Connell and Marianne on the page and, later, on-screen and waited (impatiently) to fall into the worlds of Rooney’s next characters. A love story so captivating and familiar, we wince while reading, remembering our own youthful failures and hesitations to communicate with the ones we love. Shortly after, Rooney’s Normal People was published, capturing the hearts of so many readers and cementing Rooney as one of the most prominent authorial voices today. This voice, tinged with a fierce intellect and comical irony, forms a humanistic portrayal of life where political rebellion merely stands alongside the deeply visceral experiences of love, sex and friendship. Sally Rooney’s debut 2017 novel, Conversations with Friends introduced her voice that so clearly and eloquently expressed a generation of millennials, disgruntled with the capitalist world they have been forced to adopt. Her latest, Beautiful World, Where Are You?, can perhaps be read as a personal interrogation from Rooney, forcing us to question the values that we equate with “success” in the 21 st Century. With three best-selling novels published by the age of 30, Sally Rooney is by most definitions, a huge success. Posted on 5 October, 2021 Warning: Minor spoilers ahead! ![]()
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