Beautiful World opens during a clumsy first date with a man she meets there – Felix, who works in a warehouse. “I keep encountering this person, who is myself, and I hate her with all my energy.” She has moved to the west coast of Ireland after a breakdown. “I can’t believe I have to tolerate these things – having articles written about me, and seeing my photograph on the internet, and reading comments about myself,” she writes in an email to Eileen. Like Rooney, Alice is deeply suspicious of and disillusioned by her own success. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. This is particularly striking because her bestselling first two novels, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, written when Rooney was in her early twenties, concerned the earnest romantic, political and moral epiphanies of 21-year-olds – and their depiction of 21st-century millennial life in Ireland included campus politics, the use of social media and instant messaging, and, crucially, plenty of explicit sex scenes. With its overtly contemporary references, sanctimonious now-more-than-ever tone and art-in-a-time-of-crisis faux-urgency, the political novel can be an excruciating experience.įortunately, Rooney has a rare talent for representing even the most cringe-inducing elements of contemporary experience in precise but understated prose. Here, Rooney illustrates an unfortunate but glaring truth – the majority of fiction that attempts to speak to the present moment is embarrassing. The very thought makes him “earnestly wish for the embrace of death”. Later, Eileen tells her friend Simon that “we had a Trump poem”.
Some poets use the prompt to navel-gaze, reading works about personal upheaval one “talked for ten minutes about the difficulties of finding a publisher and only had time to read one poem”.
In Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, one of the main characters, Eileen, attends a poetry reading hosted by the literary magazine where she works.
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