Name: A Little Life: A Novel
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Author: Hanya Yanagihara
ISBN: 9780385539258

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hanya Yanagihara

Publisher

Doubleday Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

736

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 16.5 x 4.6 cm

Weight

1.02 kg.

ISBN13

9780385539258

Edition No.

Synopsis "A Little Life: A Novel "

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement--and a great gift for its readers. When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome--but that will define his life forever. In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

Hanya Yanagihara

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Born in 1974 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Smith College in 1995, she moved to New York to work as a publicist and in 2017 became the director of the renowned T magazine, the fashion supplement of The New York Times. In 2015 she published A Little Life (Lumen, 2016), the novel with which she achieved international success.

Published in twenty-five countries, it was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, chosen as the best novel of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews, among other media, and has captivated more than two and a half million readers.

The People in the Trees (Lumen, 2018) was her first novel, considered one of the best of 2013 and the one that distinguished Yanagihara as a young promise in the literary world. Her latest and anticipated novel, To Paradise, which will also be published by Lumen, will be an international publishing event in 2022.

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