Critics deliver their verdicts on the Irish author's highly anticipated third novel.
Sally Rooney's highly anticipated third book has been described by critics as her "best novel" and her "strongest writing thus far" - but also "a puzzle of a novel - brilliant and flawed".It is the follow-up to the Irish author's acclaimed Conversations With Friends and Normal People.'Touching honesty'
"Her prose is now free of moments of clumsiness - especially about metaphor - that marked Normal People and Conversations with Friends," the paper's critic James Marriott said."The emotional control and technical mastery of the book's final pages reveal her as a novelist who will soon be able to do more or less as she likes - if she's not there already."
The novel, which is published on Tuesday, has "a touching honesty and truthfulness... along with a quiet brilliance",She wrote: "Overall, this is Rooney's strongest writing thus far, bathed in a soft white light - she does some wonderful things with light, and air - bearing glimmers of James Salter and Proust in its dense, photographic mapping of everyday conscious experience, then spanning outwards to our small consequence in the vastness of the universe.
The author has said she has used it as a way of working through the attention she has experienced herself.
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