Brace Yourself for the Most Astonishing, Challenging, Upsetting and Profoundly Moving Book in Many a Season. An Epic About Love and Friendship in the Twenty-First Century that Goes into Some of the Darkest Places Fiction has Ever Traveled and Yet Somehow Improbably Breaks Through into the Light. When Four Graduates from a Small Massachusetts College Move to New York to Make Their Way, They"re Broke, Adrift, and Buoyed Only by Their Friendship and Ambition. There is Kind, Handsome Willem, an Aspiring Actor; JB, a Quick-Witted, Sometimes Cruel Brooklyn-Born Painter Seeking Entry to the Art World; Malcolm, a Frustrated Architect at a Prominent Firm; and Withdrawn, Brilliant, Enigmatic Jude, who Serves as their Center of Gravity. Over the Decades, their Relationships Deepen and Darken, Tinged by Addiction, Success, and Pride. Yet their Greatest Challenge, Each Comes to Realize, is Jude Himself, by Midlife a Terrifyingly Talented Litigator Yet an Increasingly Broken Man, his Mind and...