Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" ( People ) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and "a master of the literary page-turner" (J.
Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017, she is the author of Conversations with Friends and the editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly ..
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Times , Granta and The London Review of Books .
She writes] some of the best dialogue I\'ve read." -- The New Yorker About the Author Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. . . .
Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance." -- The Wall Street Journal, "12 Best Books of Spring" " Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism. is a worthy successor to Conversations with Friends . . .
Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heartbreaking with more depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves." --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter "Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney\'s elegant sophomore effort .
Praise for Normal People "I went into a tunnel with this book and didn\'t want to come out.
Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other People and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together.
Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain.
A year later, they\'re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin.
But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne\'s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal.
He\'s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private.
There is so much to say about Rooney\'s fiction--in my experience, when People who\'ve read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. . .
COMING TO HULU IN 2020 - "Fresh and accessible .
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Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" ( People ) from Sally Rooney, the author of Conversations with Friends and "a master of the literary page-turner" (J