![]() ![]() It would simplify a rich multi-layered story to say that this event, or rather Wallace’s decision not to attend, is the catalyst for the meetings and fallouts that make this weekend defining for him. Wallace is at a crossroads a few weeks earlier his father died and he chose not to go to the funeral, moreover he has not told any of his friends what has happened. Real Life is a campus novel, set over one weekend towards the end of summer, it recounts the experiences of Wallace a 4th year Biochemistry student. 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.ĭeftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. 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. ![]() 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. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. ![]()
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