{"product_id":"intermezzo-1","title":"Intermezzo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Rooney has struck a satisfying blend of the things she's best at--sensitively rendered characters, intimacies, consideration of social and philosophical issues--with newer moves . . . The characters remain reach-out-and-touch-them real . . . Her grandmaster status remains intact.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e is an Irish novelist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBeautiful World, Where Are You\u003c\/i\u003e. She also contributed to the writing and production of the Hulu\/BBC television adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sally Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50395535573277,"sku":"9781250397560","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250397560.jpg?v=1767818652","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/intermezzo-1","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}