A Little Life - Paperback
SKU
9760804172709
ISBN
9780804172707

A Little Life

$18.00
Author
Yanagihara, Hanya

A Little Life follows four college classmatesā€”broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambitionā€”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 Yanagiharaā€™s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

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