![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Okay, it’s been a small experience in its own way, and it will all blow over in a few months or years and no one will even remember me, thank God,” she writes. Her own celebrity, for Sally Rooney, is evidence of insanity, both in the people who envy it and in the society that values it. They never tired of giving me awards, do they? It’s a shame I’ve tired so quickly of receiving them,” she writes in her new book Beautiful World, Where Are You (no question mark). “I write to you from Paris, having just arrived here from London, where I had to go and pick up an award. If literary careers are like games, and they are, then Sally Rooney has won: the massive bestselling debut, the even more massive, even more bestselling follow-up, the successful television adaptation, the profiles, the prizes. Sally Rooney is unhappy because Sally Rooney has everything. Sally Rooney has everything and Sally Rooney is unhappy. ![]()
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