Name: Beautiful World, Where Are You
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Author: Sally Rooney
ISBN: 9781250859044

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sally Rooney

Publisher

Picador

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781250859044

Synopsis "Beautiful World, Where Are You"

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBeautiful 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 breakup, 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?

Sally Rooney

(Author)

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Sally Rooney is an Irish writer born in 1991, known for her precise style and sharp exploration of human relationships, youth, and emotional dynamics. Her work is mainly framed in the genre of contemporary fiction and psychological realism. Rooney gained great notoriety with her debut Conversations with Friends (2017), a novel that addresses the complexities of friendship and love.

Her second book, Normal People (2018), was even more successful, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award and being adapted into a successful television series. In 2021 she published Beautiful World, Where Are You, continuing with her introspective style and deep characters. Rooney has been acclaimed for her ability to capture the nature of modern relationships, making her one of the most important voices in contemporary literature.

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