Sally Rooney is back, but will her many loyal fans love her new book?
Rooney excels at creating an authentic experience of striving within a frenetic, ever changing world. With her sociopolitical and emotional intelligence, Rooney raises the question: is there ethical heterosexuality under late capitalism and imminent climate collapse?
Intermezzo is Sally Rooney’s best book yet
Intermezzo is not a flawless novel. Naomi is not as well fleshed out as the other characters; there a slightly jarring habit of front-loading sentences with adverbs (“mindlessly she nods her head”; “distractedly she pushes her hair back”); and at times Peter’s sections are so staccato that they require intense focus just to be able to follow them.
The star novelist discusses her public persona, the discourse around her work and why reinvention isn’t a goal.
From the start, Intermezzo —the fourth novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney, who’s known for chronicling love and ...
Sally Rooney applies her formidable emotional intelligence to complex human entanglements, dealing deftly with desire and ...
In Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
But novelists as talented as Ms Rooney aspire to do something new. They must negotiate the twin dangers of staleness and self ...
Irish author Sally Rooney, hailed as the "voice of a generation" after the runaway success of "Normal People", examines ...
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