{"product_id":"real-life-paperback","title":"Real Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrandon Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\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. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Man Booker Prize (2020)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692624056383,"sku":"9780525538899","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f7833817e8d8f638eed57fe66b314d9c.webp?v=1764996035","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/real-life-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}