But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.Įlegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction. In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of. The widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ELLE AND VULTURE. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. The Late Americans a book by Brandon Taylor 25,037,095.80 raised for local bookstores The Late Americans Brandon Taylor (Author) FORMAT Paperback English Large Print 30.00 27.90 Hardcover English 28.00 26.04 Pre-Order Ships Pre-Order add to wishlist Product Details Price 30.00 27. 'A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir.' - The New Yorker
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