A little life : a novel

Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome -- but that will define his life forever.

Record details

ISBN: 0385539266
ISBN: 0804172706
ISBN: 9780804172707
ISBN: 0385539258
ISBN: 9780385539258
Physical Description: 720 pages ; 25 cm
regular print
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2015]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Lispenard Street -- The postman -- Vanities -- The axiom of equality -- The happy years -- Dear comrade -- Lispenard Street.
Awards Note:	Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2015.