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The great believers

Title
  1. The great believers / Rebecca Makkai.
Published by
  1. New York, New York : Viking, [2018]
Author
  1. Makkai, Rebecca

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Description
  1. 421 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai 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"--
Subject
  1. AIDS (Disease)
  2. Art museums
  3. Sects
  4. Art museums > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction
  5. Brothers and sisters > Fiction
  6. Families > Fiction
  7. France
  8. Domestic fiction
  9. Illinois > Chicago
  10. Fiction
  11. AIDS (Disease) > Illinois > Chicago > 1981-1990 > Fiction
  12. Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  13. 1981-1990
  14. Sects > France > Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Domestic fiction.
  2. Fiction.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-6929
Author
  1. Makkai, Rebecca, author.
Title
  1. The great believers / Rebecca Makkai.
Publisher
  1. New York, New York : Viking, [2018]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Chronological term
  1. 1981-1990
Other form:
  1. Online version: Makkai, Rebecca. Great believers. New York, New York : Viking, [2018] 9780735223547 (DLC) 2018016602
LCCN
  1. 2018014036
ISBN
  1. 9780735223523 hardcover
  2. 9780708899113
  3. 0735223521 hardcover
  4. 0708899110
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-6929
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