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02970aam a22004218i 4500 001 7F7422B0E59011E4B87737CBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 141202s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2014023449 020 $a 0374104395 (hardback) 020 $a 9780374104399 (hardback) : 035 $a (OCoLC)897468445 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3561.R252 $b A83 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a FIC011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Kramer, Larry. 245 14 $a The American people. $n Volume 1, $p Search for my heart / $c Larry Kramer. 246 30 $a Search for my heart 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2015. 300 $a 775 pages ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a "The long-awaited magnum opus of America's master playwright and activist Forty years in the making, The American People sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here he reimagines our history. This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness. 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 Wilkes 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, D.C., 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 encyclopedic indictment, written with outrageous love"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "The long-awaited magnum opus of America's master playwright and AIDS activist, an imaginative and satirical retelling of American history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a United States $x History $v Fiction. 941 $a 7 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210202014714.0 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20190504023147.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006084223.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109041814.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418105951.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040144.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926033136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F7422B0E59011E4B87737CBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search