The late Americans

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In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers: Ivan, tall and stoic, who is leaving ballet for a career in finance; Fatima, whose work ethic earns her both admiration and enmity; and Noah, who ‘didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.’ As they test their own desires in a series of relationships – and in other, clandestine ways – they are buffeted by other volatile figures in town, from an unruly, vulnerable young poet to a local landlord nursing a lifetime of resentment. Finally, after a series of violent encounters, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives, and waves of long-buried heartache resolve into moments of unexpected tenderness.

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SKU: 9781529922073 Category: Tag: Publisher/imprint : Vintage
Page count : 320
Published on 9th May, 2024

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‘Funny, merciless, brilliant? I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELD

Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.

In a university town, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: 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?

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are.

***A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***

‘A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise’
OPRAH DAILY

‘Taylor’s novels are so big – they contain the world’
ESQUIRE

‘One of the most important novelists of his generation’
GUARDIAN

‘Dazzling? Taylor develops his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends’
HARPER’S BAZAAR

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Weight 0.22 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm
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