![]() ![]() The dialogue is engaging and smart, the characters talking of Slavoj Žižek and Patricia Lockwood, their words often hiding underlying power struggles and emotional tensions between them. Upon rereading Rooney’s debut, I found Conversations with Friends to be anything but. That a book can and should be enjoyed at the beach has often been code for an object of derision: The novel is too casual, too feminine, too chatty, too simple. I once saw someone at a nightclub holding it. Rooney’s first novel, which was released in the spring of 2017, was a sensation. Indeed, for a show set in approximately 2018 or 2019, this would be the book to have on the beach. ![]() ![]() In the last episode of Succession’s second season, Shiv Roy - in the midst of an argument with her husband Tom - is clutching a copy of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, which she brought with her to read out on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. ![]()
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