Twelve kinds of taste
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Sex, Romance, Contemporary, Dublin (ireland)
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal.
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Character-led, contemplative, intimate and meticulous.
16 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs.
We read them all: the case for is priya.pages's, funniest is june_bug's. Marked below.
I read it in one sitting and then lay on the floor. Rooney writes miscommunication like a horror writer writes a basement.
Two people who cannot say the thing, for three hundred pages, and it never once feels thin. Rooney's trick is that the silence has plot.
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A superb evocation of a couple at Trinity College Dublin who show what it is to be young and in love
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On Open Library, 134 have read it and 1,734 want to.
“Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell.”
Sally Rooney is an Irish author and screenwriter. Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, where she also grew up and lives today, after studying in Dublin and a stint in New York City. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011. She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013. While attending TCD, Rooney was a university debater and eventually became the top debater at the European Universities Debating Championships in 2013, later writing of the experience. Before becoming a writer, she worked for a restaurant in an administrative
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