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    Conversations with Friends: A Novel
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    Conversations with Friends: A Novel

    Written by Sally Rooney

    Narrated by Aoife McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century

    Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances's friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi.
     
    Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like 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.


    Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY www.vagarights.com

    Editor's Note

    Somewhere to belong…

    Sally Rooney’s debut novel is the September 2019 pick for the PBS NewsHour - New York Times book club, Now Read This. “It’s a novel about belonging and growing up, about bad decisions and human nature, and about how the world doesn’t always fit into the archetypes we’ve seen or read,” according to the club’s announcement post.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781524781156
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    Conversations with Friends: A Novel
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    Sally Rooney

    Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Beautiful World, Where Are You, Conversations with Friends, and Normal People. She also contributed to the writing and production of the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People

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    • 5/5
      I love Rooney's writing style so much! Her characters are developed as complicated relatable persons with dialogue that is intellectually witty.
    • 5/5
      Heart wrenching and amazing at the same time. Great read. Sally Rooney has a way with words and really creating a whole scene with her words.
    • 4/5
      Deceptively simple totally absorbing completely entertaining. Read this book. Actually listen to it since she doesn’t use “ marks.

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