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A Little Life
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974)
English editions
Written in EnglishA Little Life
Picador · United Kingdom · 6 January 2022 · Paperback · 752 pages
A Little Life
Doubleday · United States · 10 March 2015 · Hardcover · 736 pages
A Little Life
Vintage · United States · 26 January 2016 · Paperback · 832 pages
A Little Life
Picador · United Kingdom · 10 March 2017 · Paperback · 736 pages
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Willem, kind and handsome, hopes to act; JB is a painter with a sharp tongue; Malcolm, an architect, feels thwarted; and Jude, a brilliant and secretive lawyer with an injured spine, is the centre around which they turn. The four college friends arrive in New York with little but their friendship and their ambitions, and the novel follows them across decades as success, addiction and pride test their bonds. Little by little it narrows to Jude, who lives with constant pain and with the marks of a childhood he refuses to talk about, and to the people who try to reach him. Some chapters are told by Harold, an older man looking back on Jude's life.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2015
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
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9780385539258 (Doubleday, United States)
9780804172707 (Vintage, United States)
9781447294832 (Picador, United Kingdom)
9781529077216 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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