Conversations with Friends - FIRST PRINTING WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE

Rooney, Sally

ISBN 10: 0571333125 / ISBN 13: 9780571333127

Published by Faber & Faber, 2017

About this Item

Near fine hardback first edition in near fine dust wrapper. A square, tight and unread copy but with several patches of foxing to edges of text block with some intrusion affecting 6 leaves. Dust jacket is crisp and complete with minimal shelf wear evident. Official faber 'Beautiful World' signed bookplate loosely inserted. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations with Friends - FIRST PRINTING WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571333125
• ISBN 13: 9780571333127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

'Sally Rooney writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ. This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty. Its richness blooms quietly.'
New Yorker

Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex ménage-à-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man.

You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies. However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.

'Rooney shares with Plath a knack for particularising a feminine consciousness, and this novel is the best I've read on what it means to be young and female right now.' Daily Mail

'The kind of novel that young women transitioning into adulthood in the early 21st century may one day call "seminal".'
Evening Standard

'A novel of ideas that is driven by character; a very compelling combination.'
Daily Telegraph, FIVE STARS * * * * *
'Hugely enjoyable romantic comedy' Metro, FIVE STARS * * * * *
'Truly beguiles... Heralds a fresh new voice in fiction' Stylist, FIVE STARS * * * * *

About the Author

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from an MA at Trinity College in 2013. Her work has appeared in Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry's Stonecutter and The Winter Pages anthology. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary'. Conversations with Friends is her first novel. Follow her @sallyrooney