6/6/2023 0 Comments Real life book brandon taylor![]() ![]() I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book. ‘Extraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. ‘This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish I ‘d had sooner.’ - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times There is 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.’ - New York Times Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction. ![]() 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. ![]() For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. 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. Real Life By Brandon Taylor Riverhead Hardcover, 9781556595776, 336 pp. Taylor has given the literary world a masterful debut. It’s an arresting portrayal of an internal map and the one-ways and glass panes that restrict its movement. 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. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Before Brandon Taylor became a writer, he was a biochemistry researcher, breeding microscopic worms in a lab. Real Life is one of those novels that perfectly captures a moment in time while also being timeless. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. ‘A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.’ - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ![]()
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