{"product_id":"9781447294832","title":"A Little Life : The Million-Copy Bestseller","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Yanagihara, Hanya\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 10 March 2017 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 736 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 49 | 512g\u003cp\u003e'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Women's PrizeFinalist for the US National Book Award for FictionWhen 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged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 body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind.' - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yanagihara, Hanya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465686192312,"sku":"9781447294832","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781447294832.jpg?v=1734703628","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781447294832","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}