Review: ‘Conversations with Friends’ doesn’t quite live up to its predecessor.
for her first novel because a more fitting one—something like?—would be a little too on the nose. Rooney’s university-years story is about a shy, retiring type with a slow-moving storm within her. There are conversations with friends to be had, but the biggest dialogue happening is an interior one.
Inevitably, some tensions arise, mostly because Frances and Nick enter into an affair that quickly consumes all of Frances’s waking thoughts. It’s not an obsession, really—that would suggest something one-sided, which this is definitely not. But Frances does lose sight of her old self as she dives headlong into a period of sexual and emotional exploration, wondering if she’s cracked the code of this taciturn older man or if she is terribly deluding herself. Maybe it’s both.
There’s a selfishness to that assumption—a haughtiness, too. Frances has a keen intellect, and a political conviction that occasionally jabs out at mostly well-meaning people in her orbit. Can her shyness be attributed to a deeply, perhaps even subconsciously, held belief that she is smarter than everyone else? Sure. A little, anyway.is sharp enough to be critical of its protagonist.
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