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A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in A Little Life

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Explanation and Analysis:

A Little Life is a work of realistic fiction that tracks the lives of four college roommates who grow old, fall in love, and drift apart. Spanning multiple decades, the novel is also partly an exploration of time. Yanagihara’s novel has the feel and scope of an epic, which shows not just in page count but in breadth. Through its patchwork of memories, the seven-part book manages to transform JB, Willem, Jude, and Malcolm from young revelers locked out on an apartment rooftop to middle-aged men contemplating life’s vastness and brevity. Decades pack themselves into pages.