The Late Americans: From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life

Hardback. New. <p><b>**A Book of 2023 in the <i>Guardian</i>, <i>Irish Times</i>, <i>Harper's Bazaar, Esquire </i>and <i>i-D**</i></b><br /><br /><b>In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends try to work out what they want, and who they are</b><br /><br />As they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment.<br /><br />Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?<br /><br /><b>'<i>The Late Americans</i> is a full expression of his singular talent' Emma Cline, author of <i>The Girls</i></b><br /><br /><b>'Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body' Raven Leilani, author of <i>Luster</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>'</i>Elegant... [Taylor] has a Chekhovian generosity' Claire Messud, author of <i>The Emperor's Children</i></b></p>