A Little Life
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates--broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition--as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara's stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsHeartbreaking
Basically, life through the eyes of trauma.
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Rated 2 starsPromising Start, Disappointing and Unrelatable
I loved the first 500 pages of A Little Life. I hated the last 300. What begins as a deeply compelling story of four college friends navigating life in New York gradually shifts into an unrelatable and frustrating narrative. The early character development is excellent, and Jude’s backstory is emotionally devastating. However, as the novel progresses, the focus narrows almost entirely to Jude, whose suffering becomes overwhelming...
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Rated 5 starsBe ready to cry
Yeah I understand it’s LONG. Completely worth it in my honest opinion. Were there parts that were horrific? Yeah of course. This book is meant to make you feel every emotion under the sun.
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Rated 3 starsI wanted to love it but didn’t
It’s just ok in my opinion. Every single review I’ve read claims it “breaks you” “you’ll never recover”, I love a good sad cry your eyes out book but it did not deliver. Was it sad, yes, but it was predictable. It was a book that could have been shortened to achieve the same trauma dumps the main character had along with where you knew the book was going. It felt like the author kept thinking, I’ll add on some more trauma,...
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Rated 5 starsbest and worst book ever
it’s the best book i’ve ever read, hanyas writing is incredible, it’s much better writing than those books people suggest on tiktok that sounds like it’s written for 13 year old haha. people have very different opinions on this book but personally i think it’s an important story to tell, it does a fantastic job at getting you to feel while telling jude’s story
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