Rebecca Makkai
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"A ... novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris ... 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...
3) The borrower
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.