![]() JB becomes the first to reach something like real grown-up success Willem follows, while Malcolm evolves more fitfully. Like so many before them they scramble and hopscotch through smoke-filled loft parties and shoddy apartment shares, starter jobs, and sexual misfires-always a golden self-contained unit, even when the alliances among them shift in small ways. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life opens on four fresh specimens, newly graduated from a prestigious Northeastern college: There’s the gentle, handsome actor Willem, charismatic painter JB, aspiring architect Malcolm, and their group’s greatest mystery, the brainy, sphinxlike Jude. ![]() ![]() As long as there have been bright young things moving to New York City to manifest their destinies, there have been books about them-a thousand stories plucked from an endless stream of strivers and dreamers. ![]()
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