Summary
Sally Rooney: Conversations with Friends
Frances is a sober, darkly insightful young woman studying in Dublin with a strong, nebulous desire to become a writer. Her friend is the beautiful Bobbi, endlessly obsessed with herself. One evening, at a poetry dinner in town, the two meet a famous photographer fifteen years their senior, and as she gradually draws them into her world, Frances reluctantly realizes that she has been impressed by her refined house and her handsome husband, Nick. But although Frances and Nick's flirtation seems fun at first, over time it begins to give way to a strange and then painful intimacy.
Written with brilliant precision, interwoven with clever humor, the novel Conversations with friends exudes an awareness of the pleasures and dangers of youth and of the boundaries of female friendship that are difficult to draw neatly.
Sally Rooney became a global star with this novel. Conversations with friends in many ways have a cult status among readers, because they are a manifesto not only of a generation but also of a time.
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