书名：Real Life真实生活2020布克奖短名单
作者：Brandon Taylor
出版社名称：Daunt Books
出版时间：2020

语种：英语
ISBN：9781911547747
商品尺寸：19.7 x 3 x 13 cm

包装：平装
页数：336（以实物为准）

'Astonishingly accomplished . . . Brandon Taylor has written a truly exquisite story of love, sex, death, and microbes that is both intimate and expansive.' --Times Literary Supplement

'Psychologically compelling, incisively satirical, told in a muted style that nevertheless accesses a full emotional range, this is a brilliant book, worthy of a wide audience.' --Observer

'Real Life is a campus novel in the tradition of Sally Rooney and Ben Lerner, and Taylor is as good as either of them - a sharp, witty and generous writer.' --Literary Review

华莱士整个夏天都在实验室里培育一种微小的蠕虫。他在中西部一所湖畔大学攻读生物化学学位，四年后的生活与他在阿拉巴马州的童年截然不同。

他的父亲几周前去世了，但是华莱士没有去参加葬礼，他也没有告诉他的朋友米勒、恩格夫、科尔和艾玛。出于自我保护的原因，他已经习惯了与最亲近的人保持谨慎的距离。但是，在一个狂风暴雨的夏末周末，他的作品被毁，以及一系列激烈的冲突，迫使华莱士努力克服过去的创伤和未来的问题。

《真实生活》优雅、残酷、亲密得惊人，是一部校园小说，讲述的是如何从小说中一个充满刺激性的新声音中学习生活。

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama.

His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.

Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction

布兰登·泰勒是电子文学推荐读物的高级编辑，也是文学中心的特约作家。他的写作为他赢得了Lambda文学基金会、Kimbilio小说和Tin House夏季作家工作室的奖学金。他拥有威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和爱荷华大学的研究生学位，在爱荷华小说作家工作室担任爱荷华艺术研究员。

Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His writing has earned him fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction.