Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth and the messy edges of female friendship. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi.ĭesperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances' intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances' friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st centuryįrances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Conversations with Friends: A Novel Paperback Augby Sally Rooney (Author) 37,698 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.99 38 Used from 5.02 31 New from 16.98 3 Collectible from 29.95 Paperback 11.49 108 Used from 2.01 47 New from 5.

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