REAL LIFE
Εκδότης Daunt Books , ISBN 9781911547747
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends - Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.
Deftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain.
'This debut is a fresh take on the age-old 'campus novel' tradition, providing a deeply painful, nuanced account of microaggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief and alienation. We admired the vivid ways the book evokes daily, repetitive action as well as memory and fantasy to get at its profound central question: what is 'real life' anyway?' - Booker Prize judges
'With the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope . . . precise and masterly.' - Financial Times
'Taylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.' -Telegraph
'With its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylor's novel is also a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.' - Guardian
'Psychologically compelling, incisively satirical … this is a brilliant book worthy of a wide audience.' - Observer
'An essential novel from a truly exciting new writer.' - Irish Times
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Περίληψη
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends - Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.
Deftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain.
'This debut is a fresh take on the age-old 'campus novel' tradition, providing a deeply painful, nuanced account of microaggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief and alienation. We admired the vivid ways the book evokes daily, repetitive action as well as memory and fantasy to get at its profound central question: what is 'real life' anyway?' - Booker Prize judges
'With the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope . . . precise and masterly.' - Financial Times
'Taylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.' -Telegraph
'With its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylor's novel is also a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.' - Guardian
'Psychologically compelling, incisively satirical … this is a brilliant book worthy of a wide audience.' - Observer
'An essential novel from a truly exciting new writer.' - Irish Times
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Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Taylor, Brandon
- Eκδότης Daunt Books
- ISBN 9781911547747
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100073270
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2020
- Σελίδες 336
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr