Real Life
of Brandon Taylor
Description
A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah MagazineA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. 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 over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 329 pages
- Publisher Riverhead Books
- Publication Date February 18th 2020
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780525538882
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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