Real Life - A Novel
Author(s): Brandon Taylor
"A blistering coming of age story" --O: The Oprah Magazine
Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and more.
A 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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Riverhead Books
- : 0.396893
- : 18 February 2020
- : 1.12 Inches X 5.37 Inches X 8.32 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Brandon Taylor
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 336