The People in the Trees & A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara 2 Books Collection Set

**Includes synopsis dust jacket right behind cover** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” ( NPR ) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. ** ** ** ** ** ** NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ** ** • * MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • ** ** ** ** WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE *** ** A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s ** latest bestselling novel, To Paradise. When Four Classmates From A Small Massachusetts College Move To New York To Make Their Way, They're Broke, Adrift, And Buoyed Only By Their Friendship And Ambition ... Over The Decades, Their Relationships Deepen And Darken, Tinged By Addiction, Success, And Pride. Yet Their Greatest Challenge, Each Comes To Realize, Is [their Center Of Gravity] Jude, ... By Midlife A Terrifyingly Talented Litigator Yet An Increasingly Broken Man, His Mind And Body Scarred By An Unspeakable Childhood, And Haunted By What He Fears Is A Degree Of Trauma That He'll Not Only Be Unable To Overcome--but That Will Define His Life Forever--amazon.com. When Four Classmates From A Small Massachusetts College Move To New York To Make Their Way, They're Broke, Adrift, And Buoyed Only By Their Friendship And Ambition ... Over The Decades, Their Relationships Deepen And Darken, Tinged By Addiction, Success, And Pride. Yet Their Greatest Challenge, Each Comes To Realize, Is [their Center Of Gravity] Jude, ... By Midlife A Terrifyingly Talented Litigator Yet An Increasingly Broken Man, His Mind And Body Scarred By An Unspeakable Childhood, And Haunted By What He Fears Is A Degree Of Trauma That He'll Not Only Be Unable To Overcome -- But That Will Define His Life Forever -- Amazon.com. Hanya Yanagihara. When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome -- but that will define his life forever A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. --back cover A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller. LISPENARD STREET THE POSTMAN VANITIES THE AXIOM OF EQUALITY THE HAPPY YEARS DEAR COMRADE LISPENARD STREET