![]() Yale’s and Charlie’s beloved friend Nico, among the earliest of the disease’s victims, is the funeral’s honoree. The people who might donate art or money, and the friends who might get sick. “Lately had two parallel mental lists going - the donor list and the sick list. There we meet young art gallery development director Yale Tishman, and his inscrutable lover, Charlie, who runs a feisty alternative newsweekly.īoth young men are caught up in the gay rights politics of the time, and with their own careers: In Yale’s case, worrying about the spread of the mysterious virus, while trying to secure a prize stash of invaluable paintings from an ailing old woman who once modeled for a passel of big-name artists, including Modigliani and Soutine. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Makkai’s compulsively readable third novel and fourth book of fiction, “The Great Believers,” opens aptly, with a funeral, in the Chicago of 1985 - when AIDS was still badly understood, ineffectively treated and raging out of control, terrorizing gay communities. 1 of2 Rebecca Makkai Susan Aurinko Show More Show Less 2 of2 "The Great Believers" Viking Show More Show Less ![]()
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