![]() ![]() She only has three of them and each, while dense with thought and feeling, are also easy reads. The easiest place to start with Rooney's literary career is the most obvious: Her novels. They have deeply intimate, intellectual conversations.īut before her work became no-brainer TV adaptation fodder, how did Rooney become a book world star in the first place? And how does someone get into her work? Here's a primer for just that. ![]() Bobbi is infatuated with Melissa while Frances begins an intense affair with Nick. Both younger women become entangled with the couple. At a poetry reading where they perform, they meet Melissa (Jemima Kirke), a glamorous writer married to Nick (Joe Alwyn), a handsome, yet slightly less successful actor. ![]() Sasha Lane ( American Honey) and newcomer Alison Oliver stars as friends Bobbi and Frances, studying at Trinity University in Dublin. ![]() And while that may be slight hyperbole, her appeal is undeniable, which the Conversations with Friends show once again makes clear. The Irish author has been hailed as the great millennial literary hope, a scribe who captures her generation and their language better than anyone else. Rooney's novels and their subsequent television adaptations have become a cottage industry. This weekend, Hulu debuted Conversations with Friends, the second series based on a Sally Rooney novel to hit the platform, once again offering up 10 episodes of emotional entanglements, warmly lit sex scenes, and Irish accents. ![]()
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