The eleventh apartment had only one closet, but it did have a sliding glass door that opened onto a small balcony, from which he could see a man sitting across the way, outdoors in only a T-shirt and shorts even though it was October, smoking.
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by Hanya Yanagihara
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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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.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
Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2015
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LGBTQ novels, Coming of Age, Literary, Sagas, Families, Fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch, child abuse, sexual abuse, Dysfunctional families, Memory, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Sagas, Male friendship, FICTION / Literary, Memoria, Familias, Amistad, Ficción, Friendship, Social life and customs, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, New york (n.y.), fiction, American literature, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2016-02-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Domestic fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Gay men, Familles, Romans, nouvelles, Homosexuels masculins, 18.06 Anglo-American literaturePeople
Willem, JB, Malcom, Jude, Merritt, Flora, Ezra, Diane Arbus, Annika, Yvette, Christine, Silvia, Daniel, Richard, Carolina, Henry Young, Black Henry Young, Asian Henry YoungShowing 5 featured editions. View all 22 editions?
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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