{"product_id":"9780571347292","title":"Sally Rooney - Normal People","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Sally Rooney. Themes include Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, City Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Costa Novel Award\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism... she writes] some of the best dialogue I've read.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom celebrated author Sally Rooney, \"the literary phenomenon of the decade\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e): a universal story of love, friendship, and growing up \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58036399145334,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780571347292.jpg?v=1780747894","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780571347292","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}