![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three of them form their primary physical and emotional bonds with other men, though sometimes in ways that challenge the usual nomenclatures. The book follows a group of four men-Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm-over three decades of friendship, from their years as college roommates to the heights of professional success. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, which was released in March, is one of the most buzzed-about books of the season, hailed as a “tour de force,” “extraordinary,” “elemental and irreducible,” “astonishing,” and the work of “ a major American novelist.” But no coverage of the book I’ve seen has discussed it as a novel fundamentally about gay lives-as the most ambitious chronicle of the social and emotional lives of gay men to have emerged for many years. But I think it’s possible that novel has happened, even if no one has quite realized it yet. ![]()
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