Beautiful world, where are you

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  • Author: Rooney, Sally
    Contributor:

    McMahon, Aoife

    Summary:

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” — The New York Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.  Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

    Genre: Bildungsromans, Psychological fiction
    Original Publisher: New York , Knopf Canada
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781039002661

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McMahon, Aoife

Abstract

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” — The New York Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.  Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Genre
Bildungsromans
Psychological fiction
Publisher (Source)

New York

Knopf Canada

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