A Little Life

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A singularly profound and moving work . . . It's not often that you read a book of this length and find yourself thinking "I wish it was longer" but Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind * The Times * A book unlike any other . . . A devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger * The Guardian * Exquisite . . . The book shifts from a generational portrait to something darker and more tender: an examination of the depths of human cruelty, counterbalanced by the restorative powers of friendship * The New Yorker * [A] wholly immersive unforgettable read . . . You won't stop reading. And it's a novel that changes you * Evening Standard * Utterly compelling . . . quite an extraordinary novel. It is impossible to put down . . . And it is almost impossible to forget * Daily Express * Hypnotic . . . An intimate, operatic friendship between four men * The Economist * A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. Over the top, beyond the pale and quite simply unforgettable * The Independent * Piercing . . . [Yanagihara is] an author with the talent to interrogate the basest and most beautiful extremes of human behaviour with sustained, bruising intensity * The Times Literary Supplement * Capacious and consuming . . . Immersive * The Boston Globe * Beautiful * Los Angeles TImes * Remarkable. . . . An epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured * The Wall Street Journal * Astonishing * The Atlantic * Deeply moving . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship * NPR * Affecting and transcendent * The Washington Post *