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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.A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A 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 new novel, To Paradise, coming in January 2022.
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine - Slate - Newsday - Buzzfeed - The Economist - Newsweek - People - Kansas City Star - Shelf Awareness - Time Out New York - Huffington Post - Book Riot - Refinery29 - Bookpage - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus "Astonishing." --The Atlantic "Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship." --NPR "Elemental, irreducible." --The New Yorker "Hypnotic. . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men." --The Economist "Capacious and consuming. . . . Immersive." --The Boston Globe "Beautiful." --Los Angeles Times "Exquisite. . . . It's not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork--if anything that word is simply just too little for it." --San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable. . . . 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. . . . A Little Life announces [Yanagihara] as a major American novelist." --The Wall Street Journal "Utterly gripping. Wonderfully romantic and sometimes harrowing, A Little Life kept me reading late into the night, night after night." --Edmund White "Spellbinding . . . . An exquisitely written, complex triumph." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Drawn in extraordinary detail by incantatory prose. . . . Affecting and transcendent." --The Washington Post "[A Little Life] lands with a real sense of occasion: the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. . . . Yanagihara's achievement has less to do with size . . . than with the breadth and depth of its considerable power, which speaks not to the indomitability of the spirit, but to the fragility of the self." --Vogue
"Exquisite. . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship." --The New Yorker
"A book unlike any other. . . . A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life. . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger." --The Guardian
"Exceedingly good." --Newsweek
"A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable." --The Independent
"Piercing. . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity." --The Times Literary Supplement
"A brave novel. . . . Impressive and moving." --Literary Review
"Enthralling and completely immersive. . . . Stunning." --Daily News
About the Author
Hanya Yanagihara is the author of"The People in the Trees."She lives in New York City."From the Hardcover edition.""
Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 1 Inches (W) x 6 Inches (D)
Weight: 1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 832
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Language: English
Street Date: July 27, 2021
TCIN: 77794383
UPC: 9780804172707
Item Number (DPCI): 059-04-0375
Origin: Made in the USA
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27 recommendations
Yes Yes Yes!!!
5 out of 5 stars
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KG - 2 months ago, Verified purchaser
this is the best book I have read in years
Best book ive ever read
5 out of 5 stars
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Faith - 3 months ago
The best book I’ve ever read by far but before you read check trigger warnings it is a very emotionally heavy book I cried, laughed, smiled, had a mental breakdown, but it changed the way I see the world and I think about this book everyday it is life changing
Exceptional
5 out of 5 stars
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Kenz - 5 months ago, Verified purchaser
This is the best book I’ve ever read. A word of caution: the emotional weight of this book is HEAVY. It was not made for everyone.
My Favorite Book
5 out of 5 stars
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St Ives Body Wash - 5 months ago
My favorite book of all time. Very hard-hitting material covered that evokes a true emotional response.
Challenges ahead
5 out of 5 stars
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Toughlovechacha - 6 months ago, Verified purchaser
If you want to kick, scream, mentally break and cry your eyes out. Then this book is for you.
Beautiful writing and character development
5 out of 5 stars
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k21p - 7 months ago, Verified purchaser
It is rare to find a book that focuses on male friendships, especially one that intertwines all of the characters so finely. Yanagihara's writing style is beautiful; I have been enthralled with this novel and also heartbroken.
Good Read
5 out of 5 stars
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A liitle lie - 8 months ago, Verified purchaser
Haven’t finished reading this book but it’s good so far
So slow
1 out of 5 stars
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kmt1020889 - 8 months ago, Verified purchaser
If you want a book that catches you the first few pages…actually the first 100 pages, this isn’t for you. I describe this as a very long winded with tons of unnecessary extra information version of A Child Called It. I got to page 100 and gave up and went online and read the spark notes. I’m glad I gave it up. This world is messed up enough, I don’t need a book to remind me how evil humans can be. And I love me a good thriller/horror with insanely inappropriate plots, but this was just too much for a fiction.
Hype weapped in a provacative cover.
1 out of 5 stars
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TikaMasala - 9 months ago
Annoying, drawn out, over the top trauma voyeurism.
Book
5 out of 5 stars
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Game - 10 months ago, Verified purchaser
I've already started reading it. She's a good writer
Read this book
5 out of 5 stars
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Nastasha F - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
I loved this book. A very well written, beautifully devastating story. A must-read
Wonderful book! Trigger warnings though
5 out of 5 stars
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Ht - 1 year ago
Made me bawl my eyes out. Trigger warnings everywhere but amazing amazing book. You might be sad a few weeks after lol. I think this book changed my life a little, shifted me in the sense of questioning life a bit and the people in my life that bring me joy and meaning. 10/10 would recommend but must be in a semi functional mental state.
Present
5 out of 5 stars
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Debe - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
It's a Christmas gift
Be careful with this one!
5 out of 5 stars
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wo7 - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
A lot of book tell stories where you are able to see the character(s) heal over time and this is just one example of a character who simply can’t. At its core this book is about friendship and love but it doesn’t always feel like it. Deeply moving and upsetting with tender and beautiful moments hiding in between the harder parts to read. Check your trigger warnings before reading.
Skipped Pages
2 out of 5 stars
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Nunya - 1 year ago
My booked skipped pages?? I enjoyed the story so far but I'm giving a low rating cuz im missing so many pages. Upsetting
Amazing book
5 out of 5 stars
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Camilla - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
This book is amazing
Great read
5 out of 5 stars
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aschwach - 1 year ago
After seeing how emotional this made people, I HAD to pick it up. Glad I did - halfway through so far and highly recommend!
Damaged
2 out of 5 stars
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Guinn - 2 years ago, Verified purchaser
Never buying books for delivery or pickup at Target anymore. It came damaged. Next time I’d just go to the store myself so I can see the quality of the book I’m paying for
Reader
5 out of 5 stars
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Opinionated - 2 years ago
One of the best books I have ever read. The writing is fantastic and the story is uncomfortable and wrenching all while being beautiful. A book to teach the world empathy.
10/10 Book
5 out of 5 stars
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Andy - 2 years ago
I love this book. Content minimally contains two gay men. No transgender, so not sure why this is in the “trans voice section”? It’s not a “gay novel” either so it shouldn’t really be in the LGBTQ section. Please change this.