Book jacket image for The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

Riverhead

9780593332337

STARRED REVIEW

The Late Americans

A thought-provoking and lyrical story about a group of people on the precipice of change, The Late Americans is a perceptive look at passion, sacrifice and intimacy among friends.

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Review of ‘The Late Americans’

Much like his first novel, Real Life, Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans follows a loosely knit circle of lovers and friends in and around a university in Iowa as they badger, seduce and provoke one another over the span of an academic year. Financial, class and racial divisions…

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