Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018
A searing, sometimes painful, yet fully rich and fascinating read. 21 year old student Frances, and her ex-girlfriend Bobbi are interviewed by Melissa about their spoken word performances. They are invited to enter Melissa’s world, they meet her actor husband, their friends, join parties, even a holiday, yet as friendships form and blossom, one particular relationship threatens all. Sally Rooney writes with a beautifully observant pen, she sees beneath the skin, testing, sifting through thoughts and feelings. Frances is one of the most intriguing characters I have met, incredibly bright and witty, she places herself on the edge of things, and can be frustrating, vulnerable, yet sharply aware and considered. I found myself analysing my thoughts as this dance of nerves and feelings began to close. ‘Conversations with Friends’ can be uncomfortable and comforting in equal measures, this isn’t a neatly bound experience, instead it’s complicated, riveting, exciting, and certainly doesn’t end when the final page is turned.
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SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND THE TELEGRAPH'S 20 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. 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. But however amusing Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange-and then painful-intimacy.
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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
"Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . 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
"The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they're suspenseful."-Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week
"Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions."-New York
"A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney's consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney's natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do."-Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
"This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone."-Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)
Conversations With Friends features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Audiobooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Recommendations, eBooks of the Month
Conversations With Friends is available in Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook
Conversations With Friends was written by Sally Rooney and published by Crown
Conversations With Friends has 309 pages
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