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Great Believers

Makkai Rebecca
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780708899120
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Fleet
Vekt
413 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528

Forfatter
Makkai Rebecca

Om bidragsyterne

Rebecca Makkai is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Fantasy, Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and New England Review, among others. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

Great Believers

Makkai Rebecca
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Makkai Rebecca
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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Stylish and ambitious . . . <b>a deeply affecting novel </b>that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful about love and life

Observer

<b>Makkai has created a moving story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, the young men lost to AIDS and the ones who survived.</b> And just as her novel evokes art's power to commemorate the departed, <i>The Great Believers</i> is itself a poignant work of memoir

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sympathizer

<b>This expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis</b>, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it. Makkai shows us characters who are devastated but not defeated, who remain devoted, in the face of death, to friendship and desire and joyful, irrepressible life.<b> I loved this book</b>

Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You

Se alle

<b>Time is a healer and a heartbreaker in Makkai's brilliant and beautiful novel.</b><i> The Great Believers</i> kept me hoping and guessing, heart in hand, until the very last page

Carol Rifka Brunt, author of Tell the Wolves I'm Home

an antidote to our general urge to forget what we'd rather not remember, but it's also - which is more important - <b>an absorbing and emotionally riveting </b><b>story </b>about what it's like to live during times of crisis

- Michael Cunningham, New York Times

Stirring, spellbinding and full of life

- Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife,

<i>The Great Believers</i> is <b>by turns funny, harrowing, tender, devastating, and always hugely suspenseful</b>. It reminds us, poignantly, of how many people, mostly young, often brilliant, were lost to the AIDS epidemic, and of how those who survived were marked by that struggle. This is Rebecca Makkai at the height of her powers

Margot Livesy, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury

Well imagined, intricately plotted, and deeply felt, both humane and human

- Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of History and An Unnecessary Woman,

Sure to become a classic Chicago novel . . . <b>a deft, harrowing novel</b> that's as beautiful as its cover

Chicago Review of Books

Magnificent . . . it doesn't set a foot wrong . . . Makkai has full command of her multi-generational perspective, and by its end, <i>The Great Believers</i> offers a grand fusion of the past and the present, the public and the personal. It's remarkably alive

Chicago Tribune

<i>The Great Believers</i> is beautiful and compelling

Running in Heels

Spookily relevant in the age of Trump. Makkai has created a gorgeous and compassionate narrative, one which asks how we can move forward from disaster

Rumpus

A sprawling, heart-wrenching novel

Refinery29

<p>Makkai handles her material with humour and sensitivity, ensuring that we truly care when the tentacles of Aids<br />begin to engulf Yale, Fiona and their friends. At its heart too it is a devastating secret . . . As a novel of the Aids crisis<i> The Great Believers</i> is a powerful, beautifully handled addition to the canon. As an exploration of the cost of living with guilt, grief and the terrible power of even a little hope, it is magnificent</p>

i news

Makkai creates a powerful, unforgettable meditation, not on death, but rather on the power and gift of life. This novel will undoubtedly touch the hearts and minds of readers

Publishers Weekly

Makkai's rich portraits of an array of big personalities and her affecting depiction of random, horrific death faced with varying degrees of gallantry make this tender, keening novel an impressive act of imaginative empathy. As compulsively readable as it is thoughtful and moving: an unbeatable fictional combination

Kirkus

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDALFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's WifeIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing 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, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. 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 epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.
Les mer
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
'Focused on a group of friends, lovers, and family outcasts, the book highlights the way tragic illness shifts the courses of people's lives - and how its touch forever lingers on those left behind' Harper's BazaarSet in Chicago in 1984 and Paris in 2015, The Great Believers is a story of how love can both rescue and destroy us, a thrilling, addictive novel full of characters whom the reader comes to know as friends, colleagues and lovers.'Makkai has created a moving story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, the young men lost to AIDS and the ones who survived. And just as her novel evokes art's power to commemorate the departed, The Great Believers is itself a poignant work of memoir' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sympathizer 'This expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it . . . I loved this book' Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You
Les mer
Stylish and ambitious . . . a deeply affecting novel that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful about love and life
Stirring, spellbinding and full of lifeThis expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it. Makkai shows us characters who are devastated but not defeated, who remain devoted, in the face of death, to friendship and desire and joyful, irrepressible life. I loved this bookWell imagined, intricately plotted, and deeply felt, both humane and human
Les mer

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Stylish and ambitious . . . <b>a deeply affecting novel </b>that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful about love and life

Observer

<b>Makkai has created a moving story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, the young men lost to AIDS and the ones who survived.</b> And just as her novel evokes art's power to commemorate the departed, <i>The Great Believers</i> is itself a poignant work of memoir

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sympathizer

<b>This expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis</b>, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it. Makkai shows us characters who are devastated but not defeated, who remain devoted, in the face of death, to friendship and desire and joyful, irrepressible life.<b> I loved this book</b>

Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You

Se alle

<b>Time is a healer and a heartbreaker in Makkai's brilliant and beautiful novel.</b><i> The Great Believers</i> kept me hoping and guessing, heart in hand, until the very last page

Carol Rifka Brunt, author of Tell the Wolves I'm Home

an antidote to our general urge to forget what we'd rather not remember, but it's also - which is more important - <b>an absorbing and emotionally riveting </b><b>story </b>about what it's like to live during times of crisis

- Michael Cunningham, New York Times

Stirring, spellbinding and full of life

- Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife,

<i>The Great Believers</i> is <b>by turns funny, harrowing, tender, devastating, and always hugely suspenseful</b>. It reminds us, poignantly, of how many people, mostly young, often brilliant, were lost to the AIDS epidemic, and of how those who survived were marked by that struggle. This is Rebecca Makkai at the height of her powers

Margot Livesy, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury

Well imagined, intricately plotted, and deeply felt, both humane and human

- Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of History and An Unnecessary Woman,

Sure to become a classic Chicago novel . . . <b>a deft, harrowing novel</b> that's as beautiful as its cover

Chicago Review of Books

Magnificent . . . it doesn't set a foot wrong . . . Makkai has full command of her multi-generational perspective, and by its end, <i>The Great Believers</i> offers a grand fusion of the past and the present, the public and the personal. It's remarkably alive

Chicago Tribune

<i>The Great Believers</i> is beautiful and compelling

Running in Heels

Spookily relevant in the age of Trump. Makkai has created a gorgeous and compassionate narrative, one which asks how we can move forward from disaster

Rumpus

A sprawling, heart-wrenching novel

Refinery29

<p>Makkai handles her material with humour and sensitivity, ensuring that we truly care when the tentacles of Aids<br />begin to engulf Yale, Fiona and their friends. At its heart too it is a devastating secret . . . As a novel of the Aids crisis<i> The Great Believers</i> is a powerful, beautifully handled addition to the canon. As an exploration of the cost of living with guilt, grief and the terrible power of even a little hope, it is magnificent</p>

i news

Makkai creates a powerful, unforgettable meditation, not on death, but rather on the power and gift of life. This novel will undoubtedly touch the hearts and minds of readers

Publishers Weekly

Makkai's rich portraits of an array of big personalities and her affecting depiction of random, horrific death faced with varying degrees of gallantry make this tender, keening novel an impressive act of imaginative empathy. As compulsively readable as it is thoughtful and moving: an unbeatable fictional combination

Kirkus

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDALFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's WifeIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing 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, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. 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 epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.
Les mer
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
'Focused on a group of friends, lovers, and family outcasts, the book highlights the way tragic illness shifts the courses of people's lives - and how its touch forever lingers on those left behind' Harper's BazaarSet in Chicago in 1984 and Paris in 2015, The Great Believers is a story of how love can both rescue and destroy us, a thrilling, addictive novel full of characters whom the reader comes to know as friends, colleagues and lovers.'Makkai has created a moving story about Chicago and Paris, the past and present, the young men lost to AIDS and the ones who survived. And just as her novel evokes art's power to commemorate the departed, The Great Believers is itself a poignant work of memoir' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sympathizer 'This expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it . . . I loved this book' Garth Greenwell author of What Belongs to You
Les mer
Stylish and ambitious . . . a deeply affecting novel that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful about love and life
Stirring, spellbinding and full of lifeThis expansive, huge-hearted novel conveys the scale of the trauma that was the early AIDS crisis, and conveys, too, the scale of the anger and love that rose up to meet it. Makkai shows us characters who are devastated but not defeated, who remain devoted, in the face of death, to friendship and desire and joyful, irrepressible life. I loved this bookWell imagined, intricately plotted, and deeply felt, both humane and human
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780708899120
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Fleet
Vekt
413 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528

Forfatter
Makkai Rebecca

Om bidragsyterne

Rebecca Makkai is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Fantasy, Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and New England Review, among others. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

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