A Little Life
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Brace Yourself for the Most Astonishing, Challenging, Upsetting and Profoundly Moving Book in Many a Season. An Epic About Love and Friendship in the Twenty-First Century that Goes into Some of the Darkest Places Fiction has Ever Traveled and Yet Somehow Improbably Breaks...Ещё
Brace Yourself for the Most Astonishing, Challenging, Upsetting and Profoundly Moving Book in Many a Season. An Epic About Love and Friendship in the Twenty-First Century that Goes into Some of the Darkest Places Fiction has Ever Traveled and Yet Somehow Improbably Breaks Through into the Light. When Four Graduates from a Small Massachusetts College Move to New York to Make Their Way, They're Broke, Adrift, and Buoyed Only by Their Friendship and Ambition. There is Kind, Handsome Willem, an Aspiring Actor; JB, a Quick-Witted, Sometimes Cruel Brooklyn-Born Painter Seeking Entry to the Art World; Malcolm, a Frustrated Architect at a Prominent Firm; and Withdrawn, Brilliant, Enigmatic Jude, who Serves as their Center of Gravity. Over the Decades, their Relationships Deepen and Darken, Tinged by Addiction, Success, and Pride. Yet their Greatest Challenge, Each Comes to Realize, is Jude Himself, by Midlife a Terrifyingly Talented Litigator Yet an Increasingly Broken Man, his Mind and...
- 2015 г.
- 0804172706
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There, art was something that was just an accessory to a lifestyle. You painted or sculpted or made crappy installation pieces because it justified a wardrobe of washed-soft T-shirts and dirty jeans and a diet of ironic cheap American beers and ironic expensive hand-rolled American cigarettes. Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you’d ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought about between shorter bursts of thinking about the things everyone thought about:
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