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The release of the Irish author’s latest novel, ‘Intermezzo’, is one of the biggest literary events of 2024, but Rooney is a writer who seems increasingly ill at ease with her ‘voice of a generation’ status, says Katie Rosseinsky

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Like many others, I have been waiting with bated breath for the publication of Irish literary sensation Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, Intermezzo, in September. Rooney is at once a distinctive voice in contemporary literary fiction and the generational product of a particular moment in Irish history. As such, and in…

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