We’re a month from the novel after the most-reviewed novel of all time by the one secure Major Novelist of a generation. Sally Rooney’s fourth book comes out on the 24th of September.
How might we structure our anticipation? The three previous novels are best set out on the baking tray. Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), and Beautiful World, Where are You? (2021) are the collapsed first try, then the raw batter gorge, then at last the stately, composed execution. The first and third attempt the same project and of them the third succeeds, while the second is a book-length indulgence of that project’s most delicious aspect.
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