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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it's every really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. -- From dust jacket
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Real Life, Brandon Taylor
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- Real Life
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Brandon Taylor
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0525538887
- ISBN13
- 9780525538882
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Freundschaft, LGBTQ+ Literatur, Geschenke für Jugendliche, Vergangenheit, Amerika, Rasse, Rassismus, Missbrauch, Alleinsein, Homosexualität, Diskriminierung, Dark Academia
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- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it's every really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. -- From dust jacket