![]() ![]() ![]() The struggle to bury a revealing look, as to not be found out. The denial to friends, and to oneself, that it is anything serious. ![]() The texts ignored the texts whose importance is denied the texts pondered over the texts eventually responded to. Rooney has a gift for pacing, and the illicit builds with each chapter: The glances that last a few moments too long. Melissa’s husband is the handsome Nick, “a failed actor whose marriage is dead,” and who at times seems “embarrassed to be alive ” in other words, a man ripe for an affair. Set in Dublin, the narrator Frances is a 21-year-old poet invited to the home of a magazine writer, Melissa. Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney’s bracing, miraculous debut, starts out typically enough, laboring in that old vineyard of novelists-infidelity. ![]()
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