C'est la fin des vacances d'été et Wallace retrouve son groupe de camarades au sein de la prestigieuse université du Midwest. Mais parmi ces jeunes gens Blancs et insouciants, Wallace peine à trouver sa place. Le veut-il vraiment ? Hanté par son passé, troublé par de récents événements, le jeune homme garde une distance entre lui et le reste du monde.
C'est lors de ces quelques jours, entre les traditionnelles fêtes étudiantes et les éternelles discussions pour refaire le monde, que Miller va tenter de se rapprocher de lui. Leur liaison va pousser Wallace dans ses derniers retranchements.
À la fois campus novel et roman d'apprentissage d'une intensité nouvelle, Real Life a été le roman sensation de l'année 2020.
Porté par une prose élégante et un regard tranchant, ce premier roman d'une maturité impressionnante pointe sans manichéisme le diable caché dans les détails d'une vie américaine en apparence apaisée et dresse le portrait sensible d'un homosexuel noir en crise d'identité.
B>A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEbr>br>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARbr>br>A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS'' CHOICE/b> br>b>br>A blistering coming of age story --O: The Oprah Magazine/b> br> br>b>Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Public Library, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, Harper''s Bazaar, Financial Times, BBC, Vulture, Thrillist, SELF, and Shelf Awarenessbr>br>A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.br>/b> br>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. br> br> Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if its ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost.
An extensive look at the history of collage and its dialogue with the art of decollage, or ungluing of paper, in the 20th century with particular emphasis on such greats as Robert Rauschenberg and Burhan Dogancay.
