Set firmly in the digital age, Conversations With Friends thankfully veers away from the easily labored territory of Snapchat and selfies, and instead follows Frances, a student at Trinity who moonlights as a spoken-word poet alongside her best friend and ex-girlfriend, the abrasive and magnetic Bobbi. (It should go without saying that this is a remarkable situation for any novelist, let alone a 26-year-old who had only recently finished her thesis.) Faber emerged from the battle victorious, and since the release of her book, which came out late May in the U.K., and earlier this month in the States, Rooney’s writing has been compared to that of Sheila Heti and Edna O’Brien, described by Kazuo Ishiguro as a “moment of real significance,” and, in a uniquely zeitgeist-y turn-of-phrase, she was dubbed no less than the “ Salinger of the Snapchat generation.” A short year later, she found herself caught in the middle of a seven-way tussle between publishers vying for the rights. Sally Rooney wrote Conversations With Friends over three months while studying for a master’s in American literature at Trinity College in Dublin.
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