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The Late Americans

The Late Americans

Summary

‘Funny, merciless, brilliant . . . I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELD


Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.


In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work out what they want, and who they are.


As they test their own desires in a series of relationships, these young men and women ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? And what does true connection look like, in an age of precarity?


‘A constellation of characters shines in [this] campus-set tale of aspiring artists’ Financial Times


‘Intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise’ Oprah Daily


‘Elegant and razor-sharp’ EMMA CLINE


* A Daily Telegraph and FT Book of the Year *

Reviews

  • Assures and deepens Taylor's position as one of the most accomplished, important novelists of his generation. He is undoubtedly on to something expansively new in his sense of what the contemporary novel can do
    Guardian

About the author

Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at: blgtylr.substack.com.
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