01479cam a2200277 i 4500 513987292 TxAuBib 20210925120000.0 210401s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021014281 9780374602604 hardcover $28.00 0374602603 hardcover $28.00 TxAuBib rda Rooney, Sally,. Beautiful World, Where Are You. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 356 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? 20210925. Interpersonal relations Fiction. TXMLR