Sally Rooney's fourth novel, "Intermezzo," explores modern love and relationships, featuring keen observations and realistic dialogues. The story centers on two estranged brothers reuniting after their father's death, delving into their romantic relationships. Rooney, a private person, continues to grapple with fame while her Marxist views influence her writing.
Irish author Sally Rooney, hailed as the "voice of ageneration" after the runaway success of Normal People ,examines modern love in all its glory and friction in her fourth novel Intermezzo released next week. The book, out on Tuesday, includes all the elements ofRooney's hugely popular oeuvre: keen observations on relationships, spiky,realistic dialogues played out in Dublin houses, erotic scenes and existentialconversations on the patriarchy and capitalism. Having already created a number of striking femalecharacters, the story focuses on two estranged brothers, Peter and Ivan, whocome together in the weeks after their father's death, and the romanticrelationships they forge in a delicate period of mourning.
Six years after her debut novel Conversations withFriends (2017), the characters are now thirty-somethings like the author,and agonise over questions of motherhood and the climate crisis. Rooney's pared-back and realistic style has also evolved,with precise dialogues dipping into vivid, internal monologues. "I feel like the older I get the more freedom I have towrite about a greater range of life experiences," t.