{"product_id":"real-life-paperback-by-brandon-taylor-1","title":"Real Life Paperback by Brandon Taylor","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eRiverhead Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2021-02-16)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e336\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780525538882\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e255.15\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.14 x 12.93 x 2.24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A blistering coming of age story” —\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, New York Public Library, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair, Elle\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThrillist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSelf\u003c\/i\u003e, Electric Literature, and Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. 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. 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.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReal Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrandon Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eReal Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice, and of the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eFilthy Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won The Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. 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