![]() Most impressively, he writes deftly about the blurring of attraction, friendship, and grief.” -Alex McElroy, BuzzFeed News Taylor is a brilliant and eloquent prose-stylist who effortlessly conveys entire lives in brief flashes of narrative insight. “Brandon Taylor reimagines the dusty expectations of the campus novel. “One of the best debut novels in recent memory. Erotic and ambiguous hard to shake.” – Entertainment Weekly “Taylor’s vivid characterization is punishingly effective his essayistic insights into cultural dynamics and their impact hold searing power. is utterly captivating all the way through.” -Isaac Fitzgerald, The Today Show “Both calm and quiet and furiously dramatic, internal and external, Real Life moves like, well, real life-but with a key difference. “A perfect, meditative read.” – USA TODAY “ classical ideal of a novel . Every scene, every dialogue, fits perfectly over a hall-of-famer first sentence delicate interlocking layers of story that build satisfyingly up and out around Wallace, his father, and his friends.” - The Paris Review He’s such a phenomenal writer, it just floors you.” - Elliot Page, Esquire So well written I felt like I was watching the events, rather than just reading the prose.” - NPR In tender, intimate and distinctive writing, Taylor explores race, sexuality and desire with a cast of unforgettable characters.” - Newsweek is so deft at portraying the burdens that befall young queer people of color and the forces that often hamper true connection.” - O: The Oprah Magazine It explores what the past means and, with brilliance and sympathy, dramatizes the intricacies of love and grief.” -Colm Tóibín “ Real Life is a tender, deeply felt, perfectly paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race. ![]() The book teems with passages of transfixing description, and perhaps its greatest asset is the force of Wallace’s isolation, which Taylor conveys with alien strangeness.” - The New Yorker “ a sophisticated character study of someone squaring self-preservation with a duty to tolerate people who threaten it. Taylor is also tackling loneliness, desire and-more than anything-finding purpose, meaning and happiness in one’s own life.” - Time with tenderness and complexity, from the first gorgeous sentence of his book to its very last. “Equal parts captivating, erotic, smart and vivid. There is a delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.” -Jeremy O. Taylor proves himself to be a keen observer of the psychology of not just trauma, but its repercussions. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf AwarenessĪ novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. “A blistering coming of age story” - O: The Oprah Magazine ![]() A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award ![]()
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