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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

177 reviews

laralixoxo's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ienbdri's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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campirebat's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dertikefi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dedempsey's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

High highly highly recommend listening to the audio while reading the print book! Éanna Hardwicke‘s performance is very moving.

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hein's review against another edition

5.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

7 Cents July 26 2024: Totally Normal People

1. Is Sally Rooney having me on? Maybe she's mad that I ditched her last novel halfway through, on page 225 out of 350.

2. For Intermezzo (out in September '24), Rooney adopts and adapts James Joyce's fractured sentences when inside her protagonists' heads.

3. To make a point. Yes. But also because it works, clever. And bring in that language philosopher: Ludwig Witts-his-name. But does it connect? Or not, like those neon circles not really. Brain makes the circle.

4. I also noticed some Hamlet bits, because I just watched Julia Stiles and Kyle MacLachlan in the great and bonkers 2000 Hamlet. Ethan Hawke wonders whether to be or not while pacing through a Blockbuster. Also, Rooney meantioned it in her notes.

5. Ulysses, on the other hand, I hadn't read since lockdown. As Rooney mentioned in her nice 2022 Paris Review piece, Ulysses is about a couple of guys.

6. And so is Intermezzo. There's a third protagonist, Margaret, whose interior we sometimes feel. But mostly, when it comes to internal focalization, free indirect discourse, feelings: It's about these two brothers.

7. And it's great. But maybe that's exactly what Rooney wants me to say! I won't fall for it! Does she think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? I hate it when she does that.

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marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

5.0

emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Peter and Ivan—brothers, a decade apart—have just lost their father to cancer. Once close, now semi-estranged, they grieve independently. Peter a confident human rights lawyer and a miserable coward, self-medicating while juggling loves old and new. Ivan, the younger (whom I read as autistic), a chess player of missed potential, intense, tender, and in love for the first time. Intimate and erotic, the brothers’ stories unfold amid themes of philosophy. Intermezzo leaves one wondering—optimistically—what really matters, in the grand scheme of things. Sally Rooney is among my favorite living writers.

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