Intermezzo
Rooney, Sally
Intermezzo / Sally Rooney. - London : Typeset by Faber, 2024. - 442 pages ; 21 cm.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
9780571365470
Brothers--Fiction
Chess players--Fiction
Lawyers--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Love--Fiction
Fathers and sons --Fiction
Man-woman relationships --Fiction
Families --Fiction
Domestic fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6118.O59 / I58 2024
Intermezzo / Sally Rooney. - London : Typeset by Faber, 2024. - 442 pages ; 21 cm.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
9780571365470
Brothers--Fiction
Chess players--Fiction
Lawyers--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Love--Fiction
Fathers and sons --Fiction
Man-woman relationships --Fiction
Families --Fiction
Domestic fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6118.O59 / I58 2024
