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In Intermezzo, the Irish writer swaps polished wit and graphic sex for something deeper, messier and more mature.

In Intermezzo, the Irish writer swaps polished wit and graphic sex for something deeper, messier and more mature.

Early in Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo, one of the central characters — Peter, a 32-year-old lawyer in Dublin — finds himself weeping in the street some weeks after his father’s death.

And so to Intermezzo, Rooney’s fourth. A lawyer in his mid-30s, Peter, sleeps with (and gives money to) a 23-year-old student, Naomi; his younger brother, Ivan, a chess prodigy who is around ...