{"product_id":"normal-people-by-sally-rooney","title":"Normal People by Sally Rooney","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Hogarth Press:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD • WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR: THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE • THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICION • THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE • THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism . . . [she writes] some of the best dialogue I’ve read.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom celebrated author Sally Rooney, “the literary phenomenon of the decade”(\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e): a universal story of love, friendship, and growing up\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":31263433949257,"sku":"9780316414210","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":31263433982025,"sku":"9781984822185","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/products\/9781984822178.jpeg?v=1555000478","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/normal-people-by-sally-rooney","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}