{"product_id":"a-little-life-hanya-yanagihara","title":"A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 700-or-so pages of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat took Japanese-American author Hanya Yanagihara 18 months to write, open in a somewhat jaunty and recognisable manner: introducing four bright young things as they graduate college, their sights trained on big New York City careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristian Lorentzen, in the London Review of Books, wrote that the characters \"seem like stereotypical middle-class strivers plucked out of 1950s cinema\", and indeed they slip into these careers somewhat easily, becoming a successful actor, painter, architect and lawyer. But soon the novel darkens, it jars and then it appals, becoming less about the four young men and more particularly about one of them: the one who won’t tell of why he limps, why he doesn’t have relationships, why he cuts. The one who won’t tell of his ugly childhood and why he fears he will never escape its horrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYanagihara should be commended for creating a book that, despite being a shattering and difficult read, became a bestseller, was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2015 and won the Kirkus Prize in Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258940039548,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/all-hy-01.jpg?v=1786108342","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/a-little-life-hanya-yanagihara","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}