Beautiful world, where are you

A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sep 07, 2021)

9780374602604

| hardcover

240 pages | 137 x 220 mm | EN

Find sold listings on eBay

CLZ may be compensated
for purchases made

Dewey 823/.92

LC Classification PR6118.O59 .B43 2021

Genre

Bildungsromans
Fiction
Psychological fiction

Subject

FICTION / Coming of Age
FICTION / Friendship
FICTION / Literary
Friendship
Friendship - Fiction
Interpersonal relations
Interpersonal relations - Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships - Fiction

Plot

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBeautiful 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?