
A Normal Person Conversation with Sally Rooney
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How Sally Carver - A Novel About Laziness
Sally's 28 now. She grew up in the west of ireland. Her mam was a teacher and her dad worked for the state telecom company. She went to an all girls school, but she wasn't much of a student. What attracted me was whatever i thought was cool when i was a teen ager. I mean, twentieth century american writers were cool to me. Anything british i was not interested in. It was kind of like, oh, that's just uncool. And i'm just not interested. When i got into my early twenties and started reading, particularly austin was a kind of gateway into nineteenth century literature. All the things that my
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