![]() ![]() But that’s her point: Everyone loses, except capitalism. Rooney knows how many writers would kill to be in her position. Since the release of her 2017 debut, “ Conversations With Friends,” and her Booker Prize-longlisted “ Normal People” in 2018, Rooney, 30, has become the kind of best-selling, critically praised author whose popularity somehow eclipses the books themselves, her name an easy shorthand for a certain cultural sensibility, even to those who haven’t read a word she’s written. Unfortunately for her, that level of isolation is no longer possible. “I live in the countryside, and I like to be kind of secluded, and to have my work as the main thing.” She’d taken the train in that morning from Castlebar, a town on the other side of Ireland where she lives with her husband, John Prasifka. “This sounds terrible, but I’m trying not to have a meltdown about doing more publicity,” she said during a video interview in July from a hotel room in Dublin. Neither did the novel’s author, Sally Rooney. “I never advertised myself as a psychologically robust person, capable of withstanding extensive public inquiries into my personality and upbringing.” ![]() ![]() “Every day I wonder why my life has turned out this way,” a millionaire novelist named Alice writes to her friend Eileen in “ Beautiful World, Where Are You,” out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Sept. ![]()
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