The Late Americans

The Late Americans

By Brandon Taylor

Pages

336

Rating

3.41

Year

2023

ContemporaryFictionComing-of-AgeRelationshipsLiteratureNovels

Description

In a university town in the American Midwest, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are.

As they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment.

Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima ask themselves and each other: 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?

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