About the Author

Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends and Normal People.

Also by the Author

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS

NORMAL PEOPLE

Copyright

First published in 2021

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Extract from ‘My Vocation’ by Natalia Ginzburg, from The Little Virtues.

Copyright © 1962, 1966, 1972, 1984, 1998, 2012 and 2015 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino. Original y published in Italian as Le Piccole Virtù.

Translation copyright © 1985 Dick Davis. First published in Great Britain in 1985

by Carcanet, Manchester.

Frank O’Hara, excerpt from ‘How to Get There’ from Lunch Poems. Copyright ©

1964 by Frank O’Hara. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of City Lights Books, citylights.com. Al rights reserved.

Extract from Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, The Modern Library, New York, copyright 1924.

Extract taken from The Waste Land, first published in 1922; copyright the Estate of T. S. Eliot. Reproduced by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

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Document Outline

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• Copyright