A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a

'I have no critical training whatsoever

He writes hilariously and tenderly of how his father

but always engaging and honest

and grab his share of the big score

' Observer

Full colour pages throughout

From ageing bodies and existential crises to long-distance relationships and embracing your slovenliness

and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining feminism

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their lives are changed profoundly and for ever

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