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Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome 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?
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of September 2021: It feels slightly disingenuous to call Beautiful World, Where Are You “classic Rooney,” as Sally Rooney has written only three novels. But her previous novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People—the latter of which was adapted into an excellent Hulu limited series—display a voice so sure and formed it’s easy to imagine Rooney as a mature (in age) and prolific writer. Rooney is neither, yet she knows her vast talent well and is confident in showcasing it. The complicated humans at the center of Beautiful World, Where Are You are Alice, a best-selling novelist; Felix, a working class man whom Alice meets in the seaside town in which she is renting a house; Eileen, Alice’s friend and a literary magazine assistant who has recently gone through a breakup; and Simon, Eileen's childhood friend with whom she's had a long flirtation. Rooney is gifted at capturing conflict between friends and lovers. She also manages fresh observations on life, relationships, and sex. And that makes Beautiful World, Where Are You classic Rooney. —Sarah Gelman, Amazon Editor
Review
A September Indie Next Pick
“[Rooney’s] writing about sex is taut and direct. It’s a narrative style I associate with the films of Andrew Haigh and Joanna Hogg, two great visual poets of social anxiety and reticence. Rooney’s dialogue is frequently perfect . . . Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.”
―Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book Review
“A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.”
―Anne Enright, The Guardian
Product details
- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 7, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374602603
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374602604
- Item Weight : 1.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.79 x 1.25 x 8.48 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #50 in Books
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