The Late Americans : from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life

Author(s): Taylor, Brandon
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 09/05/2024,
Pagination: 320 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529922073,
Description:

'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDYSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.

In a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.

'Taylor is a sharp chronicler'RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation'GUARDIAN'Remarkable'FINANCIAL TIMES'Elegant... Taylor has a Chekhovian generosity'CLAIRE MESSUD, author of THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN