In Conversations with Friends - part bildungsroman, part adultery novel, part wry takedown of moneyed intellectuals - Frances’s willingness to take on complicated but meaningful relationships coincides with her recognition of her own principles.
Praised in The New Yorker as a “ psychological portraitist,” she makes Austenesque drama from how her smart yet uncertain young characters come into understanding of others and themselves. Rooney’s attentiveness to physical suffering is in some ways incongruous with her novels’ other concerns. When Connell, one half of the couple at the novel’s center, fills out the intake form at a campus mental health clinic, he reads a prompt - “I feel my future is hopeless and will only get worse” - and finds that “its syntax seems to have originated inside him.” Marianne, Connell’s on-again-off-again lover, often seeks sexual partners willing to damage her, not because she likes the feeling but because “it relieves her somehow.” In her new work, Normal People, due out in the United States in April, pain comes in the form of depression and masochism. After traumatic experiences - a visit to a callous doctor’s office, bad sex with a bad date - she levies small, precise attacks on her own body: pinches “on the soft part” inside her elbow, scratches she lets bleed for a three-count before “carefully” bandaging them. Frances, the protagonist of Rooney’s 2016 debut novel, Conversations with Friends, suffers from endometriosis, her body frequently wracked to the point that she loses consciousness.
This bestselling story of a shared emotional life inspired a critically acclaimed BBC adaptation directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald.PAIN IS AN EVERYDAY THING for Sally Rooney’s characters. Centred around the inner lives of Marianne and Connell, Rooney charts their entry into adult life as they learn about intimacy, forgiveness and self-belief against a backdrop of shifting social spheres. Sally Rooney’s follow-up to her celebrated debut, international bestseller Normal People, is a startlingly fresh and perceptive story of the most universal subject matter. Whether a gift for yourself or someone special, this striking collection of Faber Editions unites some of Fabers’ most beloved authors in a format to last generations. With over a million copies of the main edition of Normal People sold, this Members edition will be a treasured gift to those who loved the book.Įach purchase will be individually wrapped in brown paper and sealed with a specially designed Faber Members sticker. This edition of Normal People is printed in Aldus type on cream sheet-fed wood-free paper and comes quarter bound in a claret cloth with contrasting pink head and tail bands and ribbon. This special edition of Sally Rooney’s modern classic has been exclusively designed for Faber Members as part of our autumn Faber Editions collection.
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