![]() ![]() Wallace, having spent his entire summer working until midnight under the fluorescent lights of the lab, decides that after this disaster, he might as well “meet his friends at the pier after all.” From there, the web of relationships into which he has fallen - over his five years in the program - starts to unravel, until he is left Monday morning facing the dawn, uncertain whether he will “leap out of his life and into the vast, incalculable void of the world.” In other words, when the weekend - and the novel - ends, “real life” begins. It is hard to explain to a humanist quite how traumatic this discovery would be: imagine, for instance, that someone burned your book manuscript, destroyed your laptop, then sent a poison-pen letter to your publisher. Wallace, a doctoral candidate in biochemistry, arrives to his lab to find his latest experiment - the result of months of painstaking work and a key part of his senior colleague’s dissertation - sabotaged. ![]() BRANDON TAYLOR’S REAL LIFE follows one late-summer weekend in a Midwestern university town. ![]()
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