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“It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”

Mr Salary by Sally Rooney

January 18, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Oof. Sally Rooney can do more with 22 pages than others can do with 200. Sukie and Nathan are set to collide. They have been tangled up in each other’s lives since she was an infant and he attended her christening. Sukie’s mother is dead, her father is dying, and she has been living on-and-off with Nathan since she was 19. He’s older, wiser, and much wealthier. She’s been in Boston, and he picks her up from the airport. They are charged from the get […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: desire, ennui, entanglement, faber stories, Ireland, irish literature, Sally Rooney, twentysomething

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: desire, ennui, entanglement, faber stories, Ireland, irish literature, Sally Rooney, twentysomething ·
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