Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and The London Review of Books. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, she is the author of Conversations with Friends. In 2019, she was named to the inaugural Time 100 Next list.
“[Rooney] has invented a sensibility entirely of her own: sunny and
sharp, free of artifice but overflowing with wisdom and intensity.
. . . 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.
. . . 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. But honestly, Sally Rooney could write a novel about
bath mats and I’d still read it. She’s that good and that
singular a writer.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“[Rooney] has written two fresh and accessible novels. .
. . 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
“[Rooney’s] two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners .
. . are tender portraits of Irish college students. . . .
Remarkably precise—she captures meticulously the way a generation
raised on social data thinks and talks.”—New York Review of
Books
“Normal People tackles millennial concerns with
nineteenth-century wit . . . 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 . . . like any confident couturier, she’s slicing the free flow
of words into the perfect shape. . . . She writes about tricky
commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one
else has.”—The Paris Review
“Funny and intellectually agile . . . [combines] deft social
observation—especially of shifts of power between individuals and
groups—with acute feeling . . . [Rooney is] a master of the kind of
millennial deadpan that appears to skewer a whole life and
personality in a sentence or two.”—Harper’s Magazine
“Beautifully observed . . . crackles with vivid insight into what
it means to be young and in love today.”—Esquire
“I went into a tunnel with this book and didn’t want to come out.
Absolutely engrossing and surprisingly heart-breaking with more
depth, subtlety, and insight than any one novel deserves. Young
love is a subject of much scorn, but Rooney understands the
cataclysmic effects our youth has on the people we become. She has
restored not only love’s dignity, but also its
significance.”—Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter
“Masterfully done. The quality of Rooney’s writing, particularly in
the psychologically wrought sex scenes, cannot be understated as
she brilliantly provides a window into her protagonists’ true
selves.”—BookPage (starred review)
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