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Jun 19, 2018 · Alternating between present-day Paris and '80s Chicago, The Great Believers explores the impact and aftermath of the AIDS epidemic on a close-knit group of friends living in Boystown. The novel tells three stories, through two perspectives.
The Great Believers is a historical fiction novel by Rebecca Makkai, published June 4, 2018 by Penguin Books. The novel follows two storylines in alternating chapters. The first, set in 1980s and '90s Chicago, centers on Yale Tishman, an art gallery acquisitions manager living in Boystown.
Jun 25, 2018 · Rebecca Makkai’s “The Great Believers” is a page turner about illness and mortality. The novel tells, in alternating chapters, about a group of friends, most of them gay men, in Chicago...
Jun 19, 2018 · From Chicago to Paris, THE GREAT BELIEVERS is a sweeping story of multi-generational trauma and the solitude that the AIDS epidemic created, as an entire generation was decimated by the virus.”—Fodor’s Travel. “Powerfully emotional.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for a Chicago art gallery, is about to pull off a coup, bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings.
Jun 4, 2019 · The Great Believers: A Novel Paperback – June 4, 2019 by Rebecca Makkai (Author) 4.5 12,677 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions
As her intimately portrayed characters wrestle with painful pasts and fight to love one another and find joy in the present in spite of what is to come, Makkai carefully reconstructs 1980s Chicago, WWI-era and present day Paris, and scenes of the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
Jun 19, 2018 · A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in...
PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNERALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNERTHE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A page turner . . . An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s ...
The Great Believers. Rebecca Makkai. Little, Brown Book Group, Jun 7, 2018 - Fiction - 432 pages. WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDALFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...
