like any confident couturier, she's slicing the free flow of words into the perfect shape. the millennial generation would no doubt be happy to accept her as its spokesperson were she so inclined.' - Elle 'I'm transfixed by the way Rooney works, and I'm hardly the only one.

'- New York Review of Books ' Normal People tackles millennial concerns with nineteenth-century wit. Remarkably precise-she captures meticulously the way a generation raised on social data thinks and talks. are tender portraits of Irish college students. There is so much to say about Rooney's fiction-in my experience, when people who've read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk.' -Dwight Garner, The New York Times ' two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners. She's that good and that singular a writer.' -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air ' has written two fresh and accessible novels. But honestly, Sally Rooney could write a novel about bath mats and I'd still read it. Normal People is a nuanced and flinty love story about two young people who 'get' each other, despite class differences and the interference of their own vigorous personal demons. The novel touches on class, politics, and power dynamics and brims with the sparky, witty conversation that Rooney's fans will recognize.' - Vogue 'A future classic.' - The Guardian ' Rooney is a tough girl her papercut-sharp sensibility is much more akin to writers like Rachel Kushner, Mary Gaitskill, and the pre- Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan. ' has invented a sensibility entirely of her own: sunny and sharp, free of artifice but overflowing with wisdom and intensity.

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