An exquisitely written, complex triumph.' - O, The Oprah Magazine 'Drawn in extraordinary detail by incantatory prose. Wonderfully romantic and sometimes harrowing, A Little Life kept me reading late into the night, night after night.' -Edmund White 'Spellbinding. A Little Life announces as a major American novelist.' - The Wall Street Journal 'Utterly gripping. An epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured. It''s not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork-if anything that word is simply just too little for it.' - San Francisco Chronicle 'Remarkable.

Immersive.' - The Boston Globe 'Beautiful.' - Los Angeles Times 'Exquisite. An intimate, operatic friendship between four men.' - The Economist 'Capacious and consuming. A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.' -NPR 'Elemental, irreducible.' - The New Yorker 'Hypnotic. 'Astonishing.' - The Atlantic 'Deeply moving.

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.

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. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine - Slate - Newsday - Buzzfeed - The Economist - Newsweek - People - Kansas City Star - Shelf Awareness - Time Out New York - Huffington Post - Book Riot - Refinery29 - Bookpage - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 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.

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara