**"A powerful story of people struggling to keep their humanity in dire circumstances."**_β _People Magazine__** _ _** **"Tearjerker..._The Great Believers_ asks big questions about redemption, tragedy, and connection."_βEntertainment Weekly_** **__** **A dazzling new novel of friendship and
The Great Believers
β Scribed by Makkai, Rebecca
- Book ID
- 110484730
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 566 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780735223523
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β¦ Synopsis
"A powerful story of people struggling to keep their humanity in dire circumstances."--People Magazine_** _
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**"Tearjerker...The Great Believers asks big questions about redemption, tragedy, and connection."-- Entertainment Weekly**
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A dazzling new 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 Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her...
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