{"product_id":"rooney-sally-normal-people-9780735276475","title":"Normal People","description":"\u003cb\u003eL\u003cb\u003eONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable new novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoung Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)--the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConnell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high school--he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn't have is *. Marianne Sheridan, a classmate of Connell's, has the opposite problem. Marianne is plain-looking, odd, and stubborn, and while her family is well-off, she has no friends to speak of. There is, however, a deep and undeniable connection between the two teenagers, one that develops into a secret relationship.\u003cbr\u003e     Everything changes when both Connell and Marianne are accepted to Trinity College. Suddenly Marianne is well-liked and elegant, holding court with her intellectual friends while Connell hangs at the sidelines, not quite as fluent in language of the elite. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle each other, falling in and out of romance but never straying far from where they started. And as Marianne experiments with an increasingly dangerous string of boyfriends, Connell must decide how far he is willing to go to save his oldest friend.\u003cbr\u003e     Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a novel that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the inescapable challenges of family and friendships. \u003ci\u003eNormal People \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that you will read in one sitting, and then immediately share with your friends. \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE'S ENCORE AWARD\u003cbr\u003eTHE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEAR (OVERALL)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE'S ENCORE AWARD\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW\u003c\/b\u003e CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rooney writes like she’s shearing through blue silk with a newly sharpened pair of scissors. . . . Again and again, she hits the perfect phrase and then the ideal restraint. She writes about tricky commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one else has. She is a \u003ci\u003epuer senex\u003c\/i\u003e, and I hope the spell holds.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Like other zeitgeist novels . . . \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e has trapped a moment—in this case, our new sense of collective precariousness—whether individual, economic or political. . . . It is the first novel I have read that has convincingly captured what it is to be young today: often overeducated, neurotic, slightly too self-aware.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A trailblazing novel about modern life and love that will electrify any reader.” —\u003cb\u003eCostal Novel Award jury citation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sally Rooney's \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e is the deeply felt story of a foundational relationship at the margin of friendship and true love, of shame and devotion. This inventive and profound novel proves what great fiction can do—it can open a world at the seams.” —\u003cb\u003eEmma Straub\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eModern Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Vacationers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I couldn’t put \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e down—I didn’t think I could love it as much as \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, but I did. Sally Rooney is a treasure. I can’t wait to see what she does next.” —\u003cb\u003eElif Batuman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Possessed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This is one the best novels I have read in years. Sally Rooney understands the complexities of love, its radical intimacy, and how power is always shifting between people, and she tells her story in a way that feels new and old at the same time. It is intelligent, spare and mesmerizing, and it sent me back to an earlier point in my life in such a vivid and real way, reanimating for me with that period of time (first love), which I had thought was lost to me forever, but which felt born again in the form of this book.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Heti\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotherhood \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sally Rooney is a master of the literary page-turner. In \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e, she has once again crafted a complicated love story that's impossible to put down. It's also full of wise observations about class, gender roles and how the past shapes the present. Rooney's novels are populated with characters and situations that feel at once totally familiar and like something we've never seen in fiction before.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Courtney Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSaints for All Occasions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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.” \u003cb\u003e—Stephanie Danler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweetbitter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“It is time to take a sharp inhale, people. After the success of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, Sally Rooney has produced a second novel, \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e which will be just as successful as it deserves to be: it is superb . . . [T]he truth is that this novel is about human connection and I found it difficult to disconnect. It is a long time since I cared so much about two characters on a page.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rooney homes in on what she’s best at—describing people, with all their conceits and self-delusions, weaknesses and virtues. She does this with unsparing acuity and extraordinary sensitivity . . . There’s arch humor in her insights too.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully observed and profoundly moving, I could scale new heights of hyperbole trying to describe how good this book is, but really, you just need to read it.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . [O]ne wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes…a novel of delicious frictions.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I love debuts where you just can’t believe that it was a debut . . . \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e paints a nuanced, page-turning portrait of a whip-smart university student in the throes of an affair with an older married man.” —\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eELLE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. 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