![]() ![]() 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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