The author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads 'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it' CURTIS SITTENFELD, author of ROMANTIC COMEDY 'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation' GUARDIAN 'Taylor is a sharp chronicler' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER What was happiness if not this moment, if not then, right then, the group of them, together for maybe the last time, coming together for this moment, for this very instant, what were they if not happy? Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures. In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves and each other- what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity? The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are. 'Remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
The author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads 'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it' CURTIS SITTENFELD, author of ROMANTIC COMEDY 'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation' GUARDIAN 'Taylor is a sharp chronicler' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER What was happiness if not this moment, if not then, right then, the group of them, together for maybe the last time, coming together for this moment, for this very instant, what were they if not happy? Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures. In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves and each other- what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity? The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are. 'Remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity' CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at- blgtylr.substack.com.
Assures and deepens Taylor's position as one of the most
accomplished, important novelists of his generation. He is
undoubtedly on to something expansively new in his sense of what
the contemporary novel can do
*Guardian*
I loved The Late Americans and its funny, merciless, brilliant
portrayal of the beauty and pointlessness of art, and the absurdity
and horror - and occasional transcendence - of being a person.
Magnificent
*Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic Comedy*
Brandon Taylor's third book is the most dazzling example of his
sharp pen and keen observations of human nature... Taylor develops
his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends:
recognisable, sometimes infuriating, and always worth following to
the book's last page
*Harper's Bazaar*
Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body. In The Late Americans,
the body is an instrument and an archive, vulnerable to the
complicated violence of pleasure and work
*Raven Leilani, author of Luster*
Taylor's most accomplished book, a panorama of youth in the era of
late capitalism
*Guardian*
Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity that enables him to
convey character with something like tenderness... The
relationships move like an eighteenth-century quadrille, at once
restrained and spritely... Taylor's vision is unsparing, but never
bleak
*Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children*
Sensitive and unflinching… The Late Americans is thoroughly
contemporary
*Financial Times, *Books of the Year**
The Late Americans is remarkable. If you're going to write about
art, the folly of pursuing it and the irrefutable power of it, you
should probably do it well. Taylor does it truthfully and
beautifully
*Financial Times*
Brandon Taylor has both a classic sensibility, expansive and
elegant, and a razor-sharp ability to speak to the contemporary
moment. The Late Americans is a full expression of his singular
talent
*Emma Cline, author of The Girls*
A dizzying plunge into the lives of young people making art in
America in the era of survival capitalism, grappling over the big
questions like they're fighting over a gun. Deep within their
ambitions, their pettiness and lust, is the meaning and even
grandeur they seek - and whether or not his characters ever find
it, Brandon Taylor has. A bravura performance on the edge of a
knife
*Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel*
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