Author

Publication

2015 - Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux

Language

English

Word Count

193,750 words, Guess

Page Count

775 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCPS3561.R252A83 2015
  • LCCPS3561.R252 A83 2015
  • LCCPS3561.R252 A835 2015

Description

"Forty years in the making, [this work] sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland ... In this first volume, which runs up to the 1950s, we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus; a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions; and early English settlers who establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals and the AIDS virus begins to spread"--

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Other Editions

  • The American people. Volume 1, Search for my heart : a novelFarrar, Strauss, and Giroux2015-01-01

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