Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is studying for a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, he has kept a distance even from his own friends - some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defences, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community.Brandon Taylor is a staff writer at Lit Hub and the senior editor of Electric Literature's Suggested Reading. He received his master's degrees in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525538882 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525538887 |
| Title | Real Life |
| Author | Brandon Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2020-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Booker Prize 2020, Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2021, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize 2020, Short-listed for VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize 2021, Short-listed for Young Lions Award 2021, Long-listed for Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2020 |
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