The 12 books that made their mark in 2021 | Jason Steger
would surely be a shoe-in. Allee Richards, herself no slouch as a novelist pointed out in her review that perhaps Rooney’s huge success had “spawned fervent dislike of her work”. The two couples – the two women are old friends and the book includes their emails to each other – in Rooney’s third novel are older than the characters in the huge sellingand more concerned with their futures and that of the world they live in. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Rooney ushers in Covid late in the book.
: “Humming below the surface are deeper philosophical rhythms. In one example after another, Lockwood shows that while the specifics of our lives - language, communication, cultural icons - are unrecognisably different from past generations, essential human dynamics remain remarkably consistent.”
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