The American people. Volume 1, Search for my heart : a novel
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Word Count
193,750 words, Guess
Page Count
775 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25673072M
- ISBN-139780374104399
- OCLC Control Number957232485
- OCLC Control Number907644267
- OCLC Control Number897468445
and 2 more
- Internet Archiveamericanpeoplevo0000kram
- Library of Congress Control Number2014023449
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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