First published in 1990, this is a blistering novel about a love triangle in AIDS-era New York
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright,
screenwriter and AIDS historian. She is the author of 19 books. Her
awards include a Guggenheim in Playwrighting and a Fulbright in
Judaic Studies. With Jim Hubbard she is co-founder of MIX- NYC
Queer Experimental Film Festival, The ACT UP Oral History Project
(www.actuporalhistory.org) and co-producer of the film UNITED IN
ANGER- A History of ACT UP.
Sarah is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and is
faculty advisor to Students for Justice In Palestine at The College
of Staten Island where she is a Distinguished Professor.
Sarah Schulman is a brilliant visionary, and this is a book of
resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty
years ago
*Olivia Laing*
A scathing and darkly hilarious apocalypse-now
*The Nation*
Strong, nervy and challenging
*The New York Times*
Startlingly powerful
*Dorothy Allison*
A witty, angry and anguished novel
*Publishers Weekly*
The questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and
discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force
for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump
and Trumpism now
*The New Yorker*
This is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that
portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has
generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring
examples of the human spirit's passion for revival
*David Leavitt*
This emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but
it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment
better
*The Village Voice*
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