Conversations with friends
«This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham's Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha . . . I can't wait to see what Rooney serves up next. (Sunday Times)»
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. Les mer
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Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Faber & Faber
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 321
- ISBN
- 9780571333134
- Utgave
- 1. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Originaltittel
- Conversations with friends
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Sally Rooney is the author of the novels
Conversations with Frie
nds,
Normal People and
Beautiful World, Where Are You. 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, and for which she was nominated for an Emmy award.
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«This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham's Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha . . . I can't wait to see what Rooney serves up next. (Sunday Times)»
«I love this novel . . . A contemporary love story so powerful, graceful and honest it left me reeling . . . It is, by turns, astonishing, heart-rending and perfect; there's not a word out of place. (Luke Kennard, author of 'Transition')»
«A dazzling new talent. (Mail on Sunday)»
«A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships. Required reading. (Sunday Telegraph)»
«A novelist to watch: An addictive debut, with nods to Tender is the Night, heralds a bright new talent (Sunday Times)»
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