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Intermezzo: A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A National Indie Bestseller Short- listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year and a Critics’ Pick by The New York Times Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, Financial Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, The Times (UK), Apple Books, and more A USA Today, People, and Associated Press Top 10 Book of the Year One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2024 One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women―his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude―a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 24, 2024


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 464 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374602638


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 35


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1.45 x 8.55 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #12,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #54 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #258 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #264 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • One of my favorites this year
Format: Kindle
Wow. This one was deep, thought-provoking, painful, and occasionally depressing. But I honestly can't think of a book I have read recently that more fully explored the feelings and thoughts of its main characters. I felt like I really knew Ivan and Peter, from the inside out. The stream of consciousness chapters for Peter did not bother me at all. The sentences (or often sentence fragments) were short and punctuated. After the first chapter like this, I stopped noticing. This book is one of the best I've read so far this year. I wish I had read it with a book club, because I really want to talk about it. There were so many interesting themes explored -- love, loss, the role of sex in relationships, societal norms, fitting in -- told from the perspectives of two flawed but very human characters. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2025 by AWL
    • A Contemporary Romance Novel
Format: Kindle
Sally Rooney has done something remarkable in restoring a sense of high seriousness to the romance novel. Having read some of the commentary in the press, I was intrigued to learn, among other things, that the two central characters in the book were both male. Even highly accomplished novelists often have trouble showing the perspective of the other sex, and so I wondered how well she would succeed. A little bit to my surpise, she did it as well as any man, in ways almost a bit too well. The brothers Peter and Ivan are depicted intensely in all their psychological complexity. The three major female characters - Sylvia, Peter's wife; Naomi, Peter's girlfriend; Margaret, Ivan's older girlfriend - are also meant to be complex, but they seem more abstract and less vivid than the men. At the beginning of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the deluded Hoffmann says that his imagined girlfriend is three women in one: an innocent, a courtesan, and an artist. These are the three major male fantasies, at least in literature and the arts, since at least about the start of the nineteenth century. The lineaments of these, though adapted and a bit disguised, can be discerned respectively in Sylvia, Naomi, and Margaret. The prose of the novel is cryptic, fast moving. It is not only filled with astute psychological observations but also philosophic meditations on the nature of love, such as we find in classic authors such as William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. I became very caught up in the novel and expected to rate it a five (maybe even five plus), but I was very disappointed in the ending. Nothing is actually resolved, from the personal rivalries to the romantic uncertainties. That is not necessarily a flaw in itself, and it may be that these are unresolvable, in which case the novel could end on a tragic note. Instead, having vented their conflicts and resentments, all of the characters are reconciled without any resolution. This not only impresses me as unbelievable. It also senselessly dissipates the drama that Rooney has build up over the previous 400 or so pages. Love ceases to be an existential crisis and becomes a psychological problem to be solved by a therapist, a counselor, or an advice columnist. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2024 by B
    • It’s a No for Me, Dawg
Format: Hardcover
After thoroughly enjoying the Normal People streaming series, I attempted a deep dive into the work of Sally Rooney. After reading two of her books, I am jumping out of that pool. This book is enjoyable, with reasonably interesting characters. The plot meant to be profound and symbolic and all that, but I didn’t ultimately care about the arc. I had a similar reaction to Conversations with Friends (something like that). In both cases, the set up of the story-telling felt a bit contrived. A lot of style, not so much substance. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2025 by "julie_mccoy"
    • A Beautiful Relational Novel
Format: Kindle
In her 2022 T.S. Eliot lecture at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses", Sally Rooney traced the origins of the novel in English back to women, not men, writing in the 18th century. This wonderfully erudite lecture published in the Paris Review is available online, and I recommend it to the attention of those who think Ms. Rooney is not a " serious" writer. She is indeed a serious writer, and "Intermezzo" is vivid proof of that. She said in an interview that she had learned much from the novels of Jane Austen and Henry James. That same moral seriousness is present in this book, which is a beautiful narrative of both internal thoughts and feelings and external actions and deeds, especially sexual deeds, in the interlinked lives of 2 brothers and 3 women in their lives. Sally Rooney used the term " relational novel" to describe books centered on the connections men and women sometimes succeed and sometimes fail to establish between each other. She then went on to show that "Ulysses" is such a relational novel. Her novel recalls not only Joyce but also Virginia Woolf. If you like the writers I have mentioned, you will love "Intermezzo". In a recent interview with the New York Times, Sally Rooney was asked about "big" issues like climate change and why she didn't focus on such topics rather than the relationships of Irish millenials in 21st century Dublin. (This is NOT an American novel please, and its characters and sensitivities are thoroughly Irish.) Ms. Rooney said that yes these larger issues are important, but that people had to live and needed a reason to live and their connections with other people on the micro not the macro scale provide them with hope and motivation to live. I love this book and I especially love the ending whose resolution of the storyline was as powerful and meaningful as the endings of Shakespeare's beautiful romantic comedies like "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The *end* of a story is the most important part. What a dreadful feeling when the author drops the ball at this crucial moment. Have no fear, gentle readers; when you reach the end of this wonderful book, you will be uplifted and you will feel that the hours spent on this reading journey have been well worth your valuable time. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024 by Steve Winnett

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