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A Little Life
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
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A Little Life
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Publisher's Summary
'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' – Dua Lipa
The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.
Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize
Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction
When four graduates 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.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.
'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind.' – The Times
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- Bec
- 18-02-2016
Wonderful performance and book
I loved Oliver Wyman's narration of this profoundly human story. His characters were complex and consistent and perfect to my ears.
The story itself, harrowing, sad, funny occasionally, but mostly very very human. I loved every minute of it.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-09-2021
Hard to "put down".
Loved it.
Totally immersed in the characters. Sad. Confronting content.
Very well read.
Highly recommended but content is sensitive.
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- david
- 04-05-2022
Outstanding
One of the most memorable and wonderful narratives I've ever read (heard) the story is exceptional and the characters will remain with me forever
The narrator is wonderful
Cannot recommend this enough
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-08-2022
a gift
heartbreaking, gruelling and epic.
a roller-coaster of emotions. I feel privileged to have read such a story.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-2022
Excellent writing of absolutely obscene trauma
Narration - took me a little to warm up to but couldn’t imagine a better voice in the end
Writing - beautiful. Yanagihara has a true talent in making anything she writes about incredibly captivating. There is a comforting rhythm to her sentences that encourage you to read and read and read.
Content - there is no trigger warning for this book but please heed this warning. This book dives into the most appalling forms of abuse imaginable and it does not let up. Obscene trauma awaits and is not for anyone who could potentially struggle reading about s*xual abuse
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- Anonymous User
- 14-10-2022
A little long but so worth it.
It took a bit to get my head around the story and figure out the central character, but when I did my god. I was attached and absolutely invested in Jude’s story. I was bawling in my car listening many times. A little drawn out at times but I’m so glad I persevered.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-12-2022
incredible
a truly beautiful story
does inspire me to write a book myself
highly recommend
great voice performance
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2023
speechless
Utterly guttered to have finished quite possibly the longest yet most delicately written book. it brings out the deepest insight into the human condition and that our actions create such a vast ripple effect. I couldn't recommend this any more.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-2023
Heartbreakingly life changing
An absolute masterpiece. Such a talented author. A raw and mind altering depiction of trauma and friendship. Truely beautiful.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-03-2023
Only for the emotionally mature.
This book takes you on a roller coaster of emotions.
At first I thought I had wasted my mo that credit. The first few chapters are arduous and hard to follow.
But I have it another chance and I’m so glad that I did.
I have suffered from clinical depression from the age of 17 and this book perfectly portrays the emotions and suffering of a broken depressed mind.
This book is not for those who have not felt or endured the suffering that a person can live. Love, loss, bullying, physical and sexual abuse, mundaneness of work, socializing and letting your guard down to love after you have been so totally destroyed by other humans.
Not for the privileged.
Jude, you will forever be in heart.
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