Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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The radiant new novel, “funny and smart, full of sex and love,” with a bonus short story from the acclaimed author of bestselling sensations 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 worry about sex and friendship 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?

Story Locale: Ireland

Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. She was the editor of the Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019–20. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the television adaptation of Normal People, which was broadcast on CBC Gem in 2020.

Author Residence: Dublin, Ireland

Author Hometown: County Mayo, Ireland

9780735281813
Paperback , Trade
English
General / adult
Added Jan 17, 2022Jun 07, 2022