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Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

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Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest, most ultra-Dickensian places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement--and a great gift for its publisher.

In its simplest terms, this is a novel about the long-term friendship of four classmates from a Massachusetts liberal arts college who come to New York to make their way; unlike most such college friendships the four never lose touch over the years and decades. There is Willem, an actor from the West who becomes a Ryan Gosling-type indie film star and heartthrob; Malcolm, an Upper East Side buppie who becomes a noted architect; JB, a painter of Haitian/Brooklyn middle class descent whose Basquiat-type portraits of his friends earn him art world fame and fortune; and Jude St. Francis, a…
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  • Zhenya Shabyninashared an impression8 years ago
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🚀Unputdownable

    Душераздирающий роман.

  • Marina Zalashared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    🙈Lost On Me
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    It can make me book hangover for a few days! Totally the most depressing and dark angst book that i have read in 2016! ????????

  • Марина Орловаshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    I think this book is the most distressing book I have ever read. It is heartbreaking and overwhelming. I am really impressed by Hanya Yanagihara, I loved this book even more than "The people in the trees". She really is a great writer and her books are amazing. "A little life" broke my heart indeed, I cried so much and could not stop. At the same time it is so beautiful, so poetic and elegant, it's just perfect, it really is.

Quotes

  • billecarthas quoted8 years ago
    you should never paint where you fucked
  • Leonid Plenkinhas quoted8 years ago
    the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
  • billecarthas quoted8 years ago
    They would never have demanded he be like them; they hardly wanted to be themselves.

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