{"product_id":"conversations-with-friends-a-novel","title":"Conversations with Friends: A Novel by Sally Rooney","description":"\u003ch2\u003eConversations with Friends: A Novel by Sally Rooney\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow a Hulu Original Series • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSally Rooney Named:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eTIME 100 Next List • Winner of the Sunday Times [UK] Young Writer of the Year Award • One of Buzzfeed's Best Books of the Decade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eWritten with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Sharp, funny, thought-provoking... a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes... a novel of delicious frictions.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style... One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge... But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50304143917371,"sku":"0451499069","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780451499066.jpg?v=1776339010","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-friends-a-novel","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}