02452cam a2200361 i 4500 626096490 TxAuBib 20190423120000.0 190215s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781984822178 hardcover 1984822179 hardcover 9781984822185 1984822187 NjBwBT NjBwBT eng eng rda rda rda NjBwBT rda NjBwBT NjBwBT TJT TxAuBib NjBwBT TJT TxAuBib rda Rooney, Sally, author. Normal people : a novel / Sally Rooney. First American edition. London : Hogarth, [2019] 273 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber, London, in 2018"--Title page verso. A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship. 20190423. New York Times Best Sellers, 2019. Man-woman relationships Fiction. College students Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) Fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. TXAAL