Post WW2 thriller set in Lithuania, Germany, and France
The Late Americans
Location(s): The Midwest
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary
In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are
As they test their own desires in a series of relationships they are confronted by volatile figures in town, from unruly, vulnerable young poets to a local landlord harbouring a lifetime of resentment.
Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?
‘The Late Americans is a full expression of his singular talent’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls
‘Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster
‘Elegant… [Taylor] has a Chekhovian generosity’ Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children
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