02704cam a2200541 i 4500 1673093909 TxAuBib 20241024120000.0 240415s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024014010 9780374602635 hardcover 0374602638 hardcover (OCoLC)1430988713 TxAuBib rda Rooney, Sally, author. Intermezzo : a novel / Sally Rooney. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. ©2024. 454 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20241024. Brothers Fiction. Chess players Fiction. Lawyers Fiction. Grief Fiction. Love Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Families Fiction. Brothers. fast Chess players. fast Families. fast Fathers and sons. fast Grief. fast Lawyers. fast Love. fast Man-woman relationships. fast Domestic fiction. fast Novels. fast Psychological fiction. fast Psychological fiction. lcgft Domestic fiction. lcgft Novels. lcgft