The Late Americans (Brandon Taylor)

'Funny, merciless, brilliant . . . I loved it' CURTIS SITTENFELD

Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.

In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work out what they want, and who they are.

As they test their own desires in a series of relationships, these young men and women ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? And what does true connection look like, in an age of precarity?

'A constellation of characters shines in [this] campus-set tale of aspiring artists' Financial Times

'Intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth's promise' Oprah Daily

'Elegant and razor-sharp' EMMA CLINE

* A Daily Telegraph and FT Book of the Year *

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. His criticism has been published in the New York Times, Bookforum and the London Review of Books and in his newsletter, Sweater Weather.

Buch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 320 Seiten