![]() ![]() She has also become an unlikely fashion icon. ![]() No doubt Beautiful World, Where Are You will add to the roster, if early praise is anything to go by. The Atlantic compared it to Goethe and Rooney herself was likened to Hemingway. ![]() She has published two previous novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, and is the recipient of prizes, including the Costa Novel of the Year, the Encore award and the Irish Book of the Year award. ![]() Since then, agents and publishers have fallen over themselves to be in business with the authentic voice of millennial literature. She began her career a mere six years ago, when she published the autobiographical essay ‘Even If You Beat Me’, about her time as a competitive debater. In case you need to be reminded, Sally Rooney is 30. Meanwhile, when the book is published in the US and UK on September 7, 50 British retailers will be opening their doors early on the day, so eager purchasers can get their Rooney fix shortly after daybreak. Pre-publication proof copies of the novel have sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars, despite the US publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux having explicitly asked recipients of the advanced reading copies not to resell them, and even a promotional canvas tote bag is realizing nearly $100. Rowling Harry Potter novel than an elegantly written work of literary fiction. Sally Rooney is preparing to publish her new book, Beautiful World, Where Are You. But reports are emerging of near-hysterical behavior more suited to a (pre-cancellation) J.K. ![]()
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