A Little Life: A Novel

Authors: Yanagihara, Hanya
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC043000, FIC008000
ISBN: 9780385539265, Related ISBNs: 0385539258, 0385539266, 0804172706, 9780385539258, 9780385539265
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 736,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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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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