WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 "Astonishing and unsettling ... A masterwork" San Francisco Chronicle "A book that demands to be read." Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.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. ACCLAIM FOR A LITTLE LIFE "Transporting . . . A Little Life is not to be missed." Evening Standard "The first must-read novel of the year" Kirkus "A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind." The Times "Makes for near-hypnotically compelling reading, a vivid, hyperreal portrait of human existence that demands intense emotional investment . . . An astonishing achievement: a novel of grand drama and sentiment, but it's a canvas Yanagihara has painted with delicate, subtle brushstrokes." Independent "Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget." Daily Express
Show moreWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 "Astonishing and unsettling ... A masterwork" San Francisco Chronicle "A book that demands to be read." Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates 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. ACCLAIM FOR A LITTLE LIFE "Transporting . . . A Little Life is not to be missed." Evening Standard "The first must-read novel of the year" Kirkus "A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind." The Times "Makes for near-hypnotically compelling reading, a vivid, hyperreal portrait of human existence that demands intense emotional investment . . . An astonishing achievement: a novel of grand drama and sentiment, but it's a canvas Yanagihara has painted with delicate, subtle brushstrokes." Independent "Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget." Daily Express
Show moreA novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory.
Hanya Yanagihara lives in New York City.
A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you
read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it
was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and
minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them
behind.
*The Times*
A Little Life makes for near-hypnotically compelling reading, a
vivid, hyperreal portrait of human existence that demands intense
emotional investment . . . An astonishing achievement: a novel of
grand drama and sentiment, but it's a canvas Yanagihara has painted
with delicate, subtle brushstrokes.
*Independent*
Here is 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.
*Wall Street Journal*
It's not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork - if anything
that word is simply just too little for it
*San Francisco Chronicle*
A Little Life feels elemental, irreducible-and, dark and disturbing
though it is, there is beauty in it
*New Yorker*
Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is
impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to
forget.
*Daily Express*
A darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship... I've read a lot
of emotionally taxing books in my time, but A Little Life . . . is
the only one I've read as an adult that's left me sobbing.
*Los Angeles Times*
Capacious and consuming . . . Boasts a scale and immersive power to
rival the recent epics of Donna Tartt and Elizabeth Gilbert.
*Boston Globe*
Astonishing . . . tender, torturous and achingly alive to the
undeniable pain that can scar a life.
*Psychologies*
It's Entourage directed by Bergman; it's the great 90s novel a
quarter of a century too late; it's a devastating read that will
leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger.
*Observer*
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