{"product_id":"a-little-life","title":"A Little Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe million copy bestseller, \u003cem\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/em\u003e by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen four graduates 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cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the decades, their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 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– but that will define his life forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hanya Yanagihara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40606390386850,"sku":"9781447294832","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/Untitleddesign_12.png?v=1726399269","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/a-little-life","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}