A Little Life: A Novel (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 402 Ratings
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
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.
Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Customer Reviews
a gut wrenchingly beautiful story
this story isn’t for the faint of heart and it’s meant to be gut wrenchingly horrific at times. it’s not meant to be happy, it tells the tale of someone who tries to heal from trauma and how sometimes there isn’t always going to be a happy ending. it felt so closely real and reading this as a young adult has altered my way of thinking immensely. don’t read if you’re struggling with depression or don’t want to improve your mental despair but i will say reading this book has allowed me to move past a dark moment in my life by allowing me to put myself in the shoes of the characters very intimately and feeling all that they feel. after reading the story i feel as if i had grown with a characters entire life even to the point of being able to move on from them as well. there’s a feeling this story made me feel that can’t be replicated and i would recommend it to either people well into their ages or people who may need a wake up call from fantasy into reality.
Beautiful
I cried. A lot
Check this off the list.
This book has on my list for a while. It took part of spring and all summer to finish but I’m so glad I did. The overly descriptive narratives were a bit much at times but once you get used to that what you have is a beautiful, if not sometimes painful story about love, friendship, family and the demons we live with. I was gutted by the end but happy I took the journey this book had me on.