With “Intermezzo,” Sally Rooney Is All Grown Up: ‘I Didn't Want to Be 'the Young Novelist''
In recent years, Irish author Sally Rooney, 33, has been considered a wunderkind of the literary world, thanks to the breakout success of 2017’s Conversations with Friends, 2018’s Normal People and 2021’s Beautiful World, Where Are You.
Sally Rooney shows how to escape the trap of success
Starry authors often find themselves torn between conflicting demands. Readers generally want them to write books similar to those they adored. Publishers are inclined to agree. But novelists as talented as Ms Rooney aspire to do something new. They must negotiate the twin dangers of staleness and self-indulgent experiment.
Rooney excels at creating an authentic experience of striving within a frenetic, ever changing world. With her sociopolitical ...
From the start, Intermezzo —the fourth novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney, who’s known for chronicling love and ...
Sally Rooney ditches the style that made her ‘voice of a generation’ - 5/5 With her fourth novel, Rooney has discovered her ...
In Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
Sally Rooney applies her formidable emotional intelligence to complex human entanglements, dealing deftly with desire and ...
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