The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler

A page turner . . . An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it's like to live during times of crisis. --The New York Times Book Review

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 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 estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

The Great Believers has become a critically acclaimed, indelible piece of literature; it was selected as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Buzzfeed Book of the Year, a Skimm Reads pick, and a pick for the New York Public Library's Best Books of the year.

Rebecca Makkai's pieces have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, and 2010. Makkai is an elementary school teacher who lives with her husband and two daughters north of Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780735223523
ISBN 10	0735223521
Title	The Great Believers
Author	Rebecca Makkai
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2018-06-19
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Commended for National Book Awards (Fiction) 2018, Commended for Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2019
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.