Intermezzo

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.


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  • Has anyone gotten their hands on this yet?

    I'm a huge Sally Rooney fan but more along the lines of her earlier work (Conversations with Friends and Normal People). I didn't vibe as much with Beautiful World Where Are You. I don't know anything about Intermezzo! I saw a profile on Rooney where she said she didn't believe artists had to evolve and she's not afraid to keep writing along similar themes, so I hope that means we're back in the world Normal People vibes.

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