Beautiful World, Where Are You

By (author) Rooney Sally
Short description/annotation
The new #1bestseller from the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends, now in paperback.
Description
''Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney''s best novel.'' THE TIMES *The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller* *Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards* *A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times* ''A tour de force.'' Anne Enright, Guardian ''Rooney''s best novel yet.'' Brandon Taylor, New York Times ''Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.'' Red ''The book moved me to tears more than once.'' The Times 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 times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Biographical note
Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and elsewhere. Conversations with Friends was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Rooney was also shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ''Mr Salary'' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year 2019 and won the Costa Novel of the Year in 2018. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018, as well as the Women''s Prize for Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019. Sally Rooney co-wrote the television adaptation of Normal People which was broadcast on the BBC in 2020. Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney''s third novel.
Promotional headline
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller now in paperback.
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Magnificent . . . Rooney is the best young novelist - indeed one of the best novelists - I''ve read in years.
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A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.
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Rooney''s strongest writing thus far . . . There is a touching honesty and truthfulness in these pages, along with a quiet brilliance.
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Rooney is in a class of her own.
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Written with immense skill and illuminated by an endlessly incisive intelligence.
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The book moved me to tears more than once . . . Rooney''s best novel.
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Brilliantly done: gripping, steamy, unbearably sad.
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Excellent . . . There is so much to talk about.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You is not just worth reading. It''s worth thinking about.