My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I was skeptical for the first five chapters but read encouragement online and kept moving along at which time, Rooney's realistic narration, musings and two-thread stream of consciousness story of the estranged brothers swept me up. I enjoyed the philosophical asides, the poetry, the pondering of each of the characters in their lively arguments and thoughts and empathized with their dilemmas. Alice, Peter's long-time lover reeling from pain after her mysterious accident leaves her unable to have sex (I keep thinking of Jake in The Sun Also Rises ) and Peter falls for a young sex worker named Naomi; Peter and his brother Ivan, a chess competitor, have just lost their father and are at odds over that and most of their relationship; Ivan loves Margaret, an older, married woman separated from her alcoholic husband; and, finally, there is a wonderful black and white dog. The only other Rooney I've read was which was not a high rating for me was Beautiful World, Where Are You: Chapter Samplerso I was delighted with how much I enjoyed Intermezzo.
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