- Fiction, short stories (single author)
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Sally Rooney
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571351954
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Sally Rooney is an Irish author and screenwriter. Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, where she also grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013. While attending TCD, Rooney was a university debater and eventually became the top debater at the European Universities Debating Championships in 2013, later writing of the experience. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative
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