None of This Is Serious - Nominiert: Irish Book Awards - Newcomer of the Year, 2022
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| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 14,4 x 22,0 x 2,8 cm |
| Print PDF | |
| Gewicht | 403 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781838855567 |
| Bestell-Nr | 83885556UA |
'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan
'Seriously good' Louise Nealon
PICKED AS 'ONE TO WATCH' FOR 2022 BY IRISH TIMES, STYLIST AND IRISH INDEPENDENT
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She's overshadowed by her best friend Grace. She's been in love with Finn for as long as she's known him. And she's about to meet Rory, who's suddenly available to her online.
At a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen.
None of This Is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It's about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about the friendships strong enough to withstand anything.
Rezension:
An extraordinary novel. None of This Is Serious brilliantly explores the impossibility to "come of age" in end times, where screens are so contiguous to experience that no-one is ever truly online or offline. She writes truthfully and with affectless nuance about the labyrinthine workings of friend groups and the defences women scramble for in a world that still hates us NAOISE DOLAN, author of EXCITING TIMES