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Intermezzo: A Novel

Written by:
Sally Rooney
Narrated by:
éanna Hardwicke
Price: $32.99 $16.50

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
13
Narrator
7
Release Date
September 24, 2024
Duration
16 hours 29 minutes
Summary
'[B]rilliant narration by the actor Éanna Hardwicke.'—Financial Times

'Éanna Hardwicke's narration highlights the rich emotionality of Rooney's newest novel. Hardwicke's smooth voice shifts to capture every mood--becoming desperately angry, bitter, and frantic yet also achingly tender, patient, and loving--as he performs a story of two grieving brothers.'—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

This program is read by actor Éanna Hardwicke, known for his role in Hulu's Normal People.

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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John S.

Beautifully written omelette of psycology, human needs, fears, the weirdness and beauty of life. Not as frustrating as her novel Normal People, deeper, more complex, more real, more moving.

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Danireads

This is my first Sally Rooney book and I loved it! A bit long to get to the main point but very well written about grief and love and life.

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Bruce E.

Like the narrator. A bit too sexually explicit for me. Loved narration

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