![]() ![]() ![]() They are subplots, minor events set beside the young writers’ tumultuous, if somewhat bland, romantic travails and other difficulties (depression, self-harm, social ostracism, fainting spells, being broke, bad dads). These pictures of literary ascendance are presented as frictionless, almost involuntary. He saves two copies of the issue, stowing one under his childhood bed. Connell has similar luck with his first submission to a campus magazine. The story gets published and Frances gets €800 – not bad for a manuscript written in a single sitting and submitted uncorrected. ![]() ![]() Melissa introduces Frances to Valerie, a woman with money and publishing connections, who solicits a short story from her and passes it on to a literary magazine. Still undergraduates, they have already boarded the train of lit-biz publicity. In the first pages of Conversations with Friends, the performance poets Frances and Bobbi charm an older writer, Melissa, who promises to write a profile of them. Normal People begins with its protagonists, Marianne and Connell, comparing their grades at secondary school and ends with Connell getting onto a graduate creative writing programme. S ally Rooney’s emergence in recent years as the avatar of literary success and its online scapegoat is not unrelated to the content of her novels. ![]()
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