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Book review: Age-gap relationships and fighting brothers in Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
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Irish author Sally Rooney's fourth novel, Intermezzo, explores the relationship of two brothers, who are grieving the death of their father.
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By Sally Rooney
Fiction/Faber & Faber/Paperback/437 pages/$40.40
This fourth novel by literary world superstar Sally Rooney is bound to be polarising. After her 2018 crowd-pleaser Normal People was adapted for television – the leads were played by Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones – Rooney has essentially become a cultural byword.
