Brandon Taylor

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICEA GUARDIAN SUMMER READING CHOICEA new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir. -- The New YorkerA tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race. -- Colm ToibinWallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life thats a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didnt go back for the funeral, and he hasnt told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.Deftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain. This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish Id had sooner. -- Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesExtraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book. -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything UnderA stunning debut . . . There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry. -- New York TimesPsychologically compelling, incisively satirical, told in a muted style that nevertheless accesses a full emotional range, this is a brilliant book, worthy of a wide audience.ObserverWith the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope.Financial TimesTaylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.TelegraphWith its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylors novel is a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.GuardianAn elegant take on the "campus novel" and a deeply moving study of race, grief and desire.Sunday Times

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.

El autor nos proporciona en el presente libro una brillante síntesis y un análisis claro de las más actuales tendencias y movimientos artísticos de vanguardia. Entrelazados, a menudo sucesivos, complementarios y opuestos, ofrece un ilustrado recorrido de los mismos desde los comienzos de los setenta hasta nuestros días. La obra rastrea el impacto del mercado del arte sobre los diversos estilos artísticos, los efectos del sida y las relaciones cada vez más intrincadas de los artistas con los críticos, los conservadores de arte y los teóricos. Abarcando el mundo de los artistas desde la costa oeste de Estados Unidos hasta Nueva York, Inglaterra, Francia, Alemania o Rusia, "Arte hoy" constituye un estudio fundamental que enfrenta al lector a las complejidades del mundo del arte contemporáneo, a la vez que lo valora y lo clarifica.

Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDYSeamus, 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-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.

Vida real sigue a Wallace, un estudiante de posgrado, durante un fin de semana a finales de verano. Su padre acaba de morir, su trabajo está en riesgo y no logra conectar del todo con sus amigos

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama.His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future...