Beautiful World, Where Are You 2021
By Sally Rooney, Octavi Gil Pujol
- English literature, New York Times bestseller, Interpersonal relations, Fiction
Three friends and a hanger-on gradually coalesce into two couples.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Sally Rooney, Octavi Gil Pujol
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Companhia das Letras
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780374607289
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“A woman sat in a hotel bar, watching the door.”
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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