![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Beautiful World explores it more explicitly, its prose sweeping camera-like between subjects, narrating their actions with a curious but detached tone. The fact that we can never truly know others is not a new idea in the Rooney universe. She was twenty-nine years old’ – on and on, about her family, her childhood, her adolescence, her years at college, her career, her friendships and relationships, her secrets, her unhappiness. Then suddenly, all in a rush, we are told ‘her name was Eileen Lyndon. We view ‘a woman’ as she goes about her day – at her job, meeting ‘a man’ for lunch, travelling home to eat leftovers for dinner, scrolling her phone on her bed. Chapter Two of Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You forces us to confront this truth. 4 STARS Sally Rooney, 2021 CONTAINS SPOILERSĮvery person you’ve ever met or seen in the street lives a life as rich and complex as your own. ![]()
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