Literaire fictie algemeen (3)
The Late Americans
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life
2024 || Paperback || Brandon Taylor || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'
CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY
Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures.
In a university town in the American Midwest, 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 author of the Booker Prize-shortl...
The Late Americans
A Novel
2023 || Paperback || Brandon Taylor || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. At the group’s center are Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicates her rela...
The Late Americans (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Brandon Taylor || Riverhead Books
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED AND VULTURE
“Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise, of the quest to find one’s tribe and one’s calling.” —Leigh Haber, Oprah Daily
The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads
In th...