Play Audiobook Sample
Conversations with Friends: A Novel Audiobook
Play Audiobook Sample
(0.00) - 0 listener ratings
Quick Stats About this Audiobook
Total Audiobook Chapters:
Longest Chapter Length:
Shortest Chapter Length:
Average Chapter Length:
Audiobooks by this Author:
Publisher Description
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 Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances’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.vagarights.com
Download and start listening now!
Awards
-
An Elle Magazine Pick of Best Books of the Year
-
Winner of the London Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
-
A Vogue Best Book of the Year selection
-
A Slate Magazine Best Book of the Year pick
-
Finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award
-
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
-
A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick
-
A Literary Hub Pick of Best Debut Novels of the Decade
-
Among shortlisted titles for British Book Award, 2018
-
Among longlisted titles for Desmond Elliott Prize, 2018
-
Among shortlisted titles for Folio Fiction/Poetry Awards, 2018
-
Among shortlisted titles for Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, 2018
Conversations with Friends Listener Reviews
Be the first to write a review about this audiobook!
About Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is an author whose debut novel, Conversations with Friends, won the London Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. She studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, and is editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly.
About Aoife McMahon
Aoife McMahon, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an Irish actress with extensive experience in theater and television. She won the 2002 Best Actress Gemini Award for Random Passage opposite Colm Meaney. She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic and has toured the United Kingdom with Goodnight Mister Tom.