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Conversations with Friends《聊天紀錄》英文原文小說
by Sally Rooney
📣《正常人》作者的小說處女作
二十一歲的女大學生法蘭希絲，熱愛詩和寫作。某次，她和前女友玻碧，因為一場詩歌朗誦會，意外結識藝文圈小有名氣的女作家梅麗莎和她的演員丈夫尼克，一對年輕人自此踏進一個有豪宅、派對和度假別墅的布爾喬亞世界，她們深受新朋友吸引，雙方妙語如珠，無話不談。在他們聊天的過程，一段複雜的四人關係逐漸開展。向來膽怯、不擅長表達情感的法蘭希絲，與尼克愈走愈近，這樣的親密關係迫使她面對自己前所未有的脆弱。
在《正常人》出版前，Sally Rooney 在《聊天紀錄》已充分展現她對人際描寫的細膩之處，以及關於身分差異與性傾向，如何使兩人相愛的課題變得複雜與迷人。對當代的讀者來說，我們都會面臨人際交流的需求與焦慮，Sally Rooney 細膩流暢的文筆彷彿將種種優雅地剖析，用最真摯的角色與故事將其開展出來。
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Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.
Written with gemlike 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.
