James Kidd * Independent on Sunday * Astonishing. A Little Life is unlike anything else out there. In A Little Life, it's life's evanescent blessings that maybe, but only maybe, can save you * National Public Radio * The clarity of Yanagihara's prose is perfect for dissecting blind ambition, the consolations of work and money, and how these paper over the cracks of fragile, fractured individuals. With her sensitivity to everything from the emotional nuance to the play of light inside a subway car, Yanagihara is superb at capturing the radiant moments of beauty, warmth and kindness that help redeem the bad stuff. A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship. The book's driven obsessiveness is inseparable from the emotional force that will leave countless readers weeping. As I was reading, I literally dreamed about it every night. is, in its own dark way, a miracle * Newsday * This new book is long, page-turny, deeply moving, sometimes excessive, but always packed with the weight of a genuine experience. * The Economist * Once she has you, Yanagihara is not going to let you go. The cruelty of the life Ms Yanagihara describes is trumped only by the tenacity with which she searches for an answer. John Harding * Daily Mail * At its heart A Little Life is a fairy tale that pits good against evil, love against viciousness, hope against hopelessness. Finishing its 720 pages is like finishing one of the doorstop novels of 19th-century Russia: you feel worn out but wide awake - (Cover Story) * Kirkus * The reader is pulled along by its express-train pace. A Little Life is the most devastating but satisfying novel published so far this year. There is no shorthand phrase for a novel that seduces you even as it frightens, guts, exhausts, and disgusts you. You might feel protective of the characters and their fates maybe you feel like the writer is talking directly to, or about, you and you are delighted but spooked about what the writer might reveal. They are books that confront you and make you wrestle with them. There are also novels that compel trickier, but no less passionate, emotions. The way to describe a novel you like, maybe the quickest way, is to say that you can't put it down. It's that huge and important * * The first must-read novel of the year. It reminds me of The Corrections, or a starker The Interestings, or a more linear work by David Foster Wallace.
Alex Clarke * ES Magazine * Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is the thinking person's big book of the year so far, a long, complex and pretty dark look at the intertwined lives of four college friends. Mernie Gilmore * Daily Express * Set to become one of the year's most talked-about novels. Beat 'em to the punch * South Coast Today * Utterly compelling. The phrase "tour de force" could have been invented for this audacious novel * Kirkus (Starred Review) * A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, will be one of those books people ask you if you've read yet. Maria Crawford * Financial Times * Utterly enthralling. * Evening Standard * Emerging from horror, persistent and enduring, is a touching, eternal, unconventional love story. Alex Preston * Observer * wholly immersive unforgettable read. It's Entourage directed by Bergman it's the great 90s novel a quarter of a century too late it's a devastating read that will leave your heart, like the Grinch's, a few sizes larger. Alex Clark * Evening Standard * A Little Life asks serious questions about humanism and euthanasia and psychiatry and any number of the partis pris of modern western life. A Little Life interrogates notions of value and happiness as espoused by the 21st century American dream. James Daunt * Wall Street Journal * Deeply moving. Alex Preston, 'A vintage year for the novel' * Observer * A book that demands to be read. A remarkable tale of love, friendship and the difficulties of embracing life when everything conspires against your right to happiness.
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