![]() “A Stubborn Lack of Redemption: An Interview with Hanya Yanagihara, Author of A Little Life.” Electric Literature,, She accomplishes this impression by placing Jude and his friends in a wealthy New York backdrop, full of particular locations, workplaces, and customs, but also by including elements that seem disconnected from reality. Stunning.Yanagihara has also stated that she wanted the novel to feel like a combination of two genres: naturalistic fiction and fairy tales. Impressive and moving.” - Literary Review an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity.” - The Times Literary Supplement Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable.” - The Independent “ A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch’s, a few sizes larger.” - The Guardian ![]() A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life. The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship.” - The New Yorker than with the breadth and depth of its considerable power, which speaks not to the indomitability of the spirit, but to the fragility of the self.” - Vogue Yanagihara’s achievement has less to do with size. “ lands with a real sense of occasion: the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Affecting and transcendent.” - The Washington Post “Drawn in extraordinary detail by incantatory prose. An exquisitely written, complex triumph.” - O, The Oprah Magazine Wonderfully romantic and sometimes harrowing, A Little Life kept me reading late into the night, night after night.” -Edmund White A Little Life announces as a major American novelist.” - The Wall Street Journal An epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured. It’s not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork-if anything that word is simply just too little for it.” - San Francisco Chronicle An intimate, operatic friendship between four men.” - The Economist “Elemental, irreducible.” - The New Yorker A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” -NPR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times.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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its readers. ![]() 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. Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. ![]()
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