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Sally Rooney

City Arts & Lectures

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How to Write a Novel About a Woman's Sexual Relationship

The novel was written in the first person, and it felt like francis's narrative voice really was almost like a form of power game in itself. M i couldn't find a way to write about her sexual relationship with bobby without its seeming to sort of undermine or betray the feelings that francis had for bobby. It meant that that novel definitely did have that gap in and it's like, really difficult to imagine then, how these situations would have played out if it had been bobby.

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