Conversations with Friends

A Novel

Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published July 11, 2017 by Faber & Faber, Hogarth.

ISBN:
978-0-571-33424-7
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Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind--and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil--and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. Desperate to …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Dublin
  • Ireland
  • Friendship
  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Acting
  • Affairs
  • Marriage
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • LGBT