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Beautiful world, where are you / Sally Rooney.

Rooney, Sally, (author.).

Summary:

"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?"--flyleaf.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374602604 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0374602603 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 356 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Subject: Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Sexual attraction > Fiction.
Mental health > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Romance fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 5 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Covington Branch ROONE S (Text) 33126024433009 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/25/2024
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  • Baker & Taylor
    Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations and worry about their friendships and the world they live in while pondering their eroding youth, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Normal People. 500,000 first printing.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations and worry about their friendships and the world they live in while pondering their eroding youth.
  • McMillan Palgrave

    AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Beautiful World, Where Are You
    is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.


    Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

    Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?


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