![]() ![]() somehow, when I crawled into bed every night with A Little Life, when I read about all the great apartments and great parties and great meals, juxtaposed with the visceral and meticulous story of a child whose trust and body and soul are systematically and deliberately broken by sadists for their personal entertainment, I felt that I recognized something true, and I felt comforted. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagiharas stunning novel is about the families we are born. Then it occurred to me that perhaps what was so compelling was precisely the combination of the two. ![]() ![]() I was mystified at first as to how I was able to tolerate, let alone devour, a book so devoted to two of my least-favorite literary topoi (pedophilia, lifestyles of the rich and glamorous). Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. I actually started rereading it-I reread the first twenty pages, and then I stopped, not because I wanted to but because I had professional obligations to read other things. When it was over, I felt sorry and reluctant to read anything else. In this epic, worldwide bestselling novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2015, the complex relationships between four. From the moment I picked up A Little Life, I couldn’t put it down. A little life : a novel / ISBN: 9780804172707 0804172706 Summary: Overview: A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by. ![]()
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