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Real Life – Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeA New York Times Editors` Choice”A new kind of campus novel… Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir.” The New Yorker”A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.” Colm Tรณibรญn, author of `Brooklyn`Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that`s a world away from his childhood in Alabama.His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn`t go back for the funeral, and he hasn`t told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, `Real Life` is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction.

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