There is a lot of talk about how unhappy everyone is, a fair amount about God and quite a bit about capitalism. And: “I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, capable of withstanding extensive public enquiries into my personality and upbringing.”īeautiful World Where Are You centres on two couples: Alice and Felix, a warehouse worker she met on Tinder who watches violent porn on his phone and has apparently never read a book in his life and Eileen and Simon, a left-wing policy adviser and committed Catholic, who have known each other since childhood. “Whatever insignificant talent I might have, people just expect me to sell it – I mean literally sell it for money, until I have a lot of money and no talent left,” writes Alice, an extremely successful novelist living in semi-exile on the Irish coast following a breakdown, in an email to her best friend Eileen, an editorial assistant in Dublin who likes to read Dostoevsky in her lunch break. One wonders if they – and Rooney‘s publishers for that matter – have actually read it, since, alongside all the extraordinary descriptions of sex and worldly conversations about books, it’s an anguished cry against the commercially powerful and psychologically challenging situation this globally feted author now finds herself in. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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