You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. 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.
As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another.
Its richness blooms quietly.’įrances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. This isn’t to say that the novel lacks beauty. ‘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.
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