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About the Book:

A Little Life is a profoundly moving and devastating novel that explores friendship, trauma, survival, and the resilience of the human spirit. Yanagihara masterfully weaves a story that is both heart-wrenching and hopeful, capturing the complexity of human emotions and the enduring power of love and friendship.

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York City, they are broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Willem, kind and handsome, dreams of becoming an actor; JB, a quick-witted and sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born artist, seeks entry into the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect, struggles to find fulfillment at a prominent firm; and Jude, withdrawn and brilliant, serves as their enigmatic center of gravity.

As the years pass, their relationships deepen and darken, marked by addiction, success, and pride. Despite their individual challenges, they each come to realize that their greatest challenge is Jude himself. By midlife, Jude is a terrifyingly talented litigator, yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood and haunted by a trauma that he fears will define his life forever.

• Language: English
• Author: Hanya Yanagihara
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 736
• ISBN: 9781529077216
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