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'''''Beautiful World, Where Are You''''' is a novel by [[Sally Rooney]], released on 7 September 2021.<ref name=campbell2021>{{Cite news|last=Campbell|first=Lucy|date=2021-09-06|title='Novel of the moment': Sally Rooney's third book hits the shelves|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/06/novel-of-the-moment-sally-rooneys-third-book-hits-the-shelves|access-date=2021-09-06|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906233526/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/06/novel-of-the-moment-sally-rooneys-third-book-hits-the-shelves|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=williams2021>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=John|date=2021-09-01|title=Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=4 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904222526/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=crain2021>{{Cite web|last=Crain|first=Caleb|date=2021-08-10|title=Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/619496/|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Atlantic]]|language=en|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903100919/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/619496/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=kirkus2021>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sally-rooney/beautiful-world-where-are-you/|title=Beautiful World, Where Are You|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|language=en|date=2021-06-16|access-date=6 September 2021|archive-date=2 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702214932/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sally-rooney/beautiful-world-where-are-you/|url-status=live}}</ref>
'''''Beautiful World, Where Are You''''' is a novel by [[Sally Rooney]], released on 7 September 2021.<ref name=campbell2021>{{Cite news|last=Campbell|first=Lucy|date=2021-09-06|title='Novel of the moment': Sally Rooney's third book hits the shelves|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/06/novel-of-the-moment-sally-rooneys-third-book-hits-the-shelves|access-date=2021-09-06|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906233526/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/06/novel-of-the-moment-sally-rooneys-third-book-hits-the-shelves|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=williams2021>{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=John|date=2021-09-01|title=Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=4 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904222526/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=crain2021>{{Cite web|last=Crain|first=Caleb|date=2021-08-10|title=Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/619496/|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Atlantic]]|language=en|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903100919/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/619496/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=kirkus2021>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sally-rooney/beautiful-world-where-are-you/|title=Beautiful World, Where Are You|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|language=en|date=2021-06-16|access-date=6 September 2021|archive-date=2 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702214932/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sally-rooney/beautiful-world-where-are-you/|url-status=live}}</ref>


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
The work tells the story of Alice Kelleher, an Irish novelist; Kelleher's lover Felix Brady; Eileen Lydon, Kelleher's friend; and Simon Costigan, Lydon's friend.<ref name="crain2021" /><ref name="goldsbrough2021">{{Cite news|last=Goldsbrough|first=Susannah|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's new novel is a Beautiful World – with serious flaws|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beautiful-world-sally-rooney-new-novel-book-review/|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903202339/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beautiful-world-sally-rooney-new-novel-book-review/|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[The Guardian]]'', Anthony Cummins describes the novel's structure as a "love quadrangle" between Kelleher and Brady, on the one hand; and Lydon and Costigan, on the other.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cummins|first=Anthony|date=2021-09-05|title=Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – author of her own discontent|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/05/beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-review-author-of-her-own-discontent|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906030516/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/05/beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-review-author-of-her-own-discontent}}</ref>
The work tells the story of Alice Kelleher, an Irish novelist; Kelleher's lover Felix Brady; Eileen Lydon, Kelleher's friend; and Simon Costigan, Lydon's friend.<ref name="crain2021" /><ref name="goldsbrough2021">{{Cite news|last=Goldsbrough|first=Susannah|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's new novel is a Beautiful World – with serious flaws|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beautiful-world-sally-rooney-new-novel-book-review/|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903202339/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beautiful-world-sally-rooney-new-novel-book-review/|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[The Guardian]]'', Anthony Cummins describes the novel's structure as a "love quadrangle" between Kelleher and Brady, on the one hand; and Lydon and Costigan, on the other.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cummins|first=Anthony|date=2021-09-05|title=Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – author of her own discontent|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/05/beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-review-author-of-her-own-discontent|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906030516/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/05/beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-review-author-of-her-own-discontent}}</ref>


''Beautiful World''{{'}}s themes include romance, friendship, [[precarity]], and [[social class]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hu|first=Jane|date=2021-09-03|title=Sally Rooney in the Struggle|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you-review.html|access-date=2021-09-06|website=Vulture|language=en-us|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903173311/https://www.vulture.com/article/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The title comes from a poem by [[Friedrich Schiller]] for which [[Franz Schubert]] wrote a score in 1819.<ref name="crain2021" /><ref name="mcalpin2021">{{Cite web|last=McAlpin|first=Heller|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1031904202/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-where-are-you|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|publisher=[[NPR]]|language=en|archive-date=4 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904221429/https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1031904202/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-where-are-you}}</ref> The novel includes substantial [[Epistolary novel|epistolary]] elements, such as emails between Kelleher and Lydon.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wilson|first=Jennifer|date=2021-09-02|title=How Should a Millennial Marxist Novel Be?|work=[[The New Republic]]|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/163505/millennial-marxist-novel-be-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-review|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905092533/https://newrepublic.com/article/163505/millennial-marxist-novel-be-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-review|url-status=live}}</ref>
''Beautiful World''{{'}}s themes include romance, friendship, [[precarity]], and [[social class]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hu|first=Jane|date=2021-09-03|title=Sally Rooney in the Struggle|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you-review.html|access-date=2021-09-06|website=Vulture|language=en-us|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903173311/https://www.vulture.com/article/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The title comes from a poem by [[Friedrich Schiller]] for which [[Franz Schubert]] wrote a score in 1819.<ref name="crain2021" /><ref name="mcalpin2021">{{Cite web|last=McAlpin|first=Heller|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1031904202/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-where-are-you|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|publisher=[[NPR]]|language=en|archive-date=4 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904221429/https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1031904202/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-where-are-you}}</ref> The novel includes substantial [[Epistolary novel|epistolary]] elements, such as emails between Kelleher and Lydon.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wilson|first=Jennifer|date=2021-09-02|title=How Should a Millennial Marxist Novel Be?|work=[[The New Republic]]|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/163505/millennial-marxist-novel-be-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-review|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905092533/https://newrepublic.com/article/163505/millennial-marxist-novel-be-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-review|url-status=live}}</ref>


== Publication and release ==
== Publication and release ==
Before ''Beautiful World''{{'}}s release in September 2021, [[Advance copy|advance copies]] circulated on the internet; one sold on [[eBay]] for over USD 200.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Strzyżyńska|first=Weronika|date=2021-08-20|title=Advance copies of Sally Rooney's unpublished book sold for hundreds of dollars|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/advanced-copies-sally-rooney-unpublished-book-sold-beautiful-world|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905140003/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/advanced-copies-sally-rooney-unpublished-book-sold-beautiful-world}}</ref> On the day it was released, ''Beautiful World'' was a bestseller on [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]].<ref name="campbell2021" /> In anticipation of its release, Rooney's American publisher [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] distributed branded merchandise, including [[bucket hat]]s and [[tote bag]]s, to [[Internet celebrity|influencers]].<ref name="dwyer2021">{{Cite news|last=Dwyer|first=Kate|date=2021-09-02|title=Beautiful Merch, Where Are You?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/sally-rooney-book-merch.html|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905140002/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/sally-rooney-book-merch.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Before ''Beautiful World''{{'}}s release in September 2021, [[Advance copy|advance copies]] circulated on the internet; one sold on [[eBay]] for over US$200.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Strzyżyńska|first=Weronika|date=2021-08-20|title=Advance copies of Sally Rooney's unpublished book sold for hundreds of dollars|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/advanced-copies-sally-rooney-unpublished-book-sold-beautiful-world|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905140003/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/advanced-copies-sally-rooney-unpublished-book-sold-beautiful-world}}</ref> On the day it was released, ''Beautiful World'' was a bestseller on [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]].<ref name="campbell2021" /> In anticipation of its release, Rooney's American publisher [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] distributed branded merchandise, including [[bucket hat]]s and [[tote bag]]s, to [[Internet celebrity|influencers]].<ref name="dwyer2021">{{Cite news|last=Dwyer|first=Kate|date=2021-09-02|title=Beautiful Merch, Where Are You?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/sally-rooney-book-merch.html|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=5 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905140002/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/sally-rooney-book-merch.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


''Beautiful World'' was published by [[Faber and Faber]] in the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chilton|first=Martin|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's new book is stimulating, but surely not aimed at the olds – review|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-b1912947.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Independent]]|language=en|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902190050/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-b1912947.html}}</ref> and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.<ref name="dwyer2021" />
''Beautiful World'' was published by [[Faber and Faber]] in the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chilton|first=Martin|date=2021-09-02|title=Sally Rooney's new book is stimulating, but surely not aimed at the olds – review|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-b1912947.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-06|website=[[The Independent]]|language=en|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902190050/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/sally-rooney-review-beautiful-world-b1912947.html}}</ref> and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.<ref name="dwyer2021" />

Revision as of 16:51, 7 September 2021

Beautiful World, Where Are You
First UK edition
AuthorSally Rooney
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFaber and Faber; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
7 September 2021
Preceded byNormal People 

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a novel by Sally Rooney, released on 7 September 2021.[1][2][3][4]

Synopsis

The work tells the story of Alice Kelleher, an Irish novelist; Kelleher's lover Felix Brady; Eileen Lydon, Kelleher's friend; and Simon Costigan, Lydon's friend.[3][5] In The Guardian, Anthony Cummins describes the novel's structure as a "love quadrangle" between Kelleher and Brady, on the one hand; and Lydon and Costigan, on the other.[6]

Beautiful World's themes include romance, friendship, precarity, and social class.[7] The title comes from a poem by Friedrich Schiller for which Franz Schubert wrote a score in 1819.[3][8] The novel includes substantial epistolary elements, such as emails between Kelleher and Lydon.[9]

Publication and release

Before Beautiful World's release in September 2021, advance copies circulated on the internet; one sold on eBay for over US$200.[10] On the day it was released, Beautiful World was a bestseller on Amazon.[1] In anticipation of its release, Rooney's American publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux distributed branded merchandise, including bucket hats and tote bags, to influencers.[11]

Beautiful World was published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom[12] and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Campbell, Lucy (6 September 2021). "'Novel of the moment': Sally Rooney's third book hits the shelves". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  2. ^ Williams, John (1 September 2021). "Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Crain, Caleb (10 August 2021). "Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Beautiful World, Where Are You". Kirkus Reviews. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  5. ^ Goldsbrough, Susannah (2 September 2021). "Sally Rooney's new novel is a Beautiful World – with serious flaws". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  6. ^ Cummins, Anthony (5 September 2021). "Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review – author of her own discontent". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  7. ^ Hu, Jane (3 September 2021). "Sally Rooney in the Struggle". Vulture. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  8. ^ McAlpin, Heller (2 September 2021). "Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World". NPR. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  9. ^ Wilson, Jennifer (2 September 2021). "How Should a Millennial Marxist Novel Be?". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  10. ^ Strzyżyńska, Weronika (20 August 2021). "Advance copies of Sally Rooney's unpublished book sold for hundreds of dollars". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  11. ^ a b Dwyer, Kate (2 September 2021). "Beautiful Merch, Where Are You?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  12. ^ Chilton, Martin (2 September 2021). "Sally Rooney's new book is stimulating, but surely not aimed at the olds – review". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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