The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart

Kramer, Larry

ISBN 10: 0374104395 / ISBN 13: 9780374104399

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2015

About this Item

Hardcover in jacket, Near Fine with trace wear only. Signed and datred by Kramer on title page,

Seller Inventory # 031751

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374104395
• ISBN 13: 9780374104399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

In this first volume, which runs up to the 1950s, we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus; a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions; and early English settlers who establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wikes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals and the AIDS virus begins to spread. Against all this, Kramer sets the intimate heartfelt story of a middle-class family outside Washington, DC, trying to cope with the darkest of times. The American People is a work of ribald satire, prophetic outrage, and dazzling imagination. It is an encyclopaedic indictment, written with outrageous love.

About the Author

Larry Kramer is an award-winning playwright and author, and a celebrated public health and gay rights advocate. He wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and rose to further prominence with his bestselling novel Faggots. A pioneering AIDS activist, he cofounded the Gay Men's Health Crisis in 1982 and founded ACT UP in 1987. Kramer has won numerous awards for his plays and received the 2013 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist.