02381cam a2200301 4500 1649983905 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781524781163 1524781169 0019834817 Axis360 TxAuBib Rooney, Sally. Conversations With Friends [Boundless]. Unabridged. Random House Digital, 2017. 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. Format: Acoustik. FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women; FICTION / Coming of Age. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-08 20:00:03. FICTION Coming of Age. FICTION Women. FICTION Literary. McMahon, Aoife, narrator. https://hslibrary.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0019834817 TXHSP