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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Absolutely loved "Normal People." But could not force myself to finish this. Wanted to smack all of the characters and tell them about ethical non-monogamy. And if several of the main characters are supposed to have left wing views how could that not come up in convo or cross someone's mind? But I guess ethical non-monogamy done well is no way to drive a plot? ( ) I struggled to relate to this. Our main character is Frances, a 21 year old student cum intern who lives rent free in a flat owned by her family and receives an allowance from her drunken father. She has a best friend, Bobbi, and we follow this pair through about 6 months. They meet Melissa, a photographer and her actor husband Nick. These two quickly become embroiled in Frances & Bobbi's lives. The title implies that there are conversations between friends. As the book progressed I became increasingly convinced that what Frances really needed were some friends, rather than the echo chamber she lives in. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nickâ??s flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Francesâ??s friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY www.vagarig No library descriptions found. |
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