{"title":"Sally Rooney","description":"Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, she is the author of Conversations with Friends. In 2019, she was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.","products":[{"product_id":"intermezzo-paperback","title":"Intermezzo - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Indie Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year and a Critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pick by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed an Essential Read by \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK), Apple Books, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, and Associated Press Top 10 Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Chicago Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003es Favorite Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude--a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101209596127,"sku":"9781250397560","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZD6ARwFdwT9781250397560.webp?v=1781068475"},{"product_id":"beautiful-world-where-are-you-paperback","title":"Beautiful World, Where Are You - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT #1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful World, Where Are You\u003c\/i\u003e is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNormal People \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. 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Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101549859039,"sku":"9781250859044","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Q0FXd0M0SkluYTFvM3F2aEFCZ3VDZz09.webp?v=1781071704"},{"product_id":"normal-people-hardcover","title":"Normal People - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \"A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) from the author of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends, \u003c\/i\u003e \"a master of the literary page-turner\" (J. 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At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation--awkward but electrifying--something life changing begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. 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She writes] some of the best dialogue I've read.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101565128927,"sku":"9781984822178","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cExwSjdnVXRESVQxTEhTd0NYbkFmUT09.webp?v=1781071733"},{"product_id":"conversations-with-friends-paperback","title":"Conversations with Friends - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \"[A] cult-hit . . . 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At 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. But however amusing Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange--and then painful--intimacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they're figuring out how to be adults.\"\u003cb\u003e--Celeste Ng, \u003ci\u003eLate Night with Seth Meyers Podcast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. 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She writes] some of the best dialogue I've read.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101600420063,"sku":"9781984822185","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UkJOeUlFdGlnNVNINFl1aDg2a2dKQT09.webp?v=1781071801"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sally-rooney.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}