Brandon Taylor: Real Life
Real Life
Buch
- A Novel
- Penguin LLC US, 02/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780525538899
- Bestellnummer: 10394913
- Umfang: 327 Seiten
- Gewicht: 272 g
- Maße: 203 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.2.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
"A blistering coming of age story"-O: The Oprah Magazine
One of the year's most talked about novels, following a young man who runs away to a Midwestern university townonly to fight a deeper psychic battle.
A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend-and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community.
Real Life is a gut punch of a novel, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and buried histories-and at what cost.