whats the timestap??

Gosh, this is definitely my favourite part in the whole book. Well, apart from all those happy little moments they have until everything crashes (again).

what page of the book is this from? i cant seem to remember

@@sprout6789 176. It’s the end of chapter 1 of part II.

I don't believe it is for young people at all, at least not teenagers. The book is quite heavy, it follows the life of Jude and his friends beginning from their 20-30s (i think) to their 50s. It's quite heavy and hard-hitting, you'd have to be old enough to read it. I assume the age rating would be 18+. I went to watch the recorded play in the cinemas and most of the audience was way over 40. Hope this helps! I'd also check the trigger warnings before beginning the book if you haven't read it yet, there are many graphic scenes and themes that can be a lot.

Kazo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, John Banville !!!!, peter rock, jonathan coe, Peter Cameron, Anita Brookner, Steven Millhauser!

Pues por cómo habla y lo que dice no parece muy tímida... todo lo contrario.

March 31, 2016

@@AuthorEvents do you think she has a recent interview like this? Was always wondering why her book isn't a movie or series yet. Lol

@@leoesguerra5710 she mentioned a reason from another interview actually. there has been a conversation about it, but in the end, it never happened. but i guess we will wait in the future. because i can imagine when i am already old, there will be an adaptation for it

i don't know if she has explained it here. have forgotten about this interview already

it isn't as if she just imagined it. because if you look at other interview like the one she did for the Guardian she says she looked at friends, specially male friends that had undergone this, and were able to discuss this topic after they were therapized. SO she says she didn't do any research regarding this because she didn't do it in the same way she did with law, math and architecture: getting people on the phone etc.. Because she didn´t need to, she already had plenty of first hand knowledge provided by close friends on her social group by having conversations and beign close to them. She did´nt did any reasearch on it while writting the book, because she already had previous knowledge by reliable sources

everyone's experience with suicide is different. she could have gone through this herself (which i am not stating, it is just an assumption), and thought that she didn't need to research. suicide and sexual assault cannot be objectified into one singular categories; no two experiences are the same

she literally said that she did. that the way sa survivors express their trauma is not the same but conveys to her in a similar manner. Get lost hater

Yanagihara may well have done some research, but the abuse perpetrated on Jude in A Little Life is on such an epic scale that it almost becomes a joke, and it eventually dwarfs any actual abuse that real people in the real world might suffer. Jude is abused by the brothers in the monastery, by Brother Luke who runs away with him (and pimps him out), by the counsellors who care for him when he's "rescued", by various punters when he runs away again and prostitutes himself with truckers, by "Doctor Traynor" who kidnaps and holds him captive, then later by his sadistic lover, Caleb. It's ultimately almost comic. It's a wonder Jude can go to the supermarket for a loaf of bread without being sexually abused by a shelf stacker. Yanagihara's tale of abuse strays into the territory of torture porn before you even get halfway through her endless tome. If you don't think this is exploiting the experiences of real abuse victims for somewhat sick entertainment, you should probably give it some more thought. Yanagihara also writes exhaustively about gay men and gay relationships (her book is even marketed as gay literature), yet she has not even the faintest understanding of, or interest in the real sexuality of gay men (the sex part she can't even bring herself to write about without becoming vague and coy). It is a straight cis woman's fantasy of gay men. The only difference between A Little Life and the now hundreds of tacky "M/M romances" marketed to horny women who get off on men getting it on is that it's better written. But that doesn't make it any less creepy.

the explanation that Jude gives for cutting himself and the overall theme of dealing with trauma in the book is 1000000% more convincing and realistic than whatever shitty internet article says anyway.