The Late Americans: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life

ISBN-13: 9781787334434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Brandon Taylor

Opis

**A Book of 2023 in the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and i-D**In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they areAs they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment. Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?'Tender and unflinching ... A wonderful book' Colin Barrett, author of Homesickness'Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body' Raven Leilani, author of Luster'A glimmering study of young humans in brutal times' Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar