Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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M, you know, i'm someone who's very interested in the effects of the economic crash on irish society. I suppose all it does is m allows the landscape of an, like, just the material geography of post crash arland to sort of intrude on the narrative and become part of it in that way. It's a scene with this kind of very er, kind of a creeping dialogue, where each person says like, a particular sentence and edges things on in the dynamic. And when i read normal people, i was really taken with these two characters,. cause they feel so vivid and so real, which is what so many people are saying.
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