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At-school-Connell-and-Marianne-pretend-not-to-know-each-other.-He’s-popular-and-well-adjusted,-star-of-the-school-soccer-team-while-she-is-lonely,-proud,-and-intensely-private.-But-when-Connell-comes-to-pick-his-mother-up-from-her-housekeeping-job-at-Marianne’s-house,-a-strange-and-indelible-connection-grows-between-the-two-teenagers—one-they-are-determined-to-conceal.A-year-later,-they’re-both-studying-at-Trinity-College-in-Dublin.-Marianne-has-found-her-feet-in-a-new-social-world-while-Connell-hangs-at-the-sidelines,-shy-and-uncertain.-Throughout-their-years-in-college,-Marianne-and-Connell-circle-one-another,-straying-toward-other-people-and-possibilities-but-always-magnetically,-irresistibly-drawn-back-together.-Then,-as-she-veers-into-self-destruction-and-he-begins-to-search-for-meaning-elsewhere,-each-must-confront-how-far-they-are-willing-to-go-to-save-the-other.Sally-Rooney-brings-her-brilliant-psychological-acuity-and-perfectly-spare-prose-to-a-story-that-explores-the-subtleties-of-class,-the-electricity-of-first-love,-and-the-complex-entanglements-of-family-and-friendship.
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