Yanagihara, Hanya creator author. Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress) text novel Alternative histories (Fiction) Dystopian fiction. Fictional Work Alternative histories (Fiction) Dystopian fiction. Fiction. Novels. Alternative histories (Fiction) Dystopias. Alternative histories (Fiction) Dystopian fiction. Novels. Endpapers (Binding) Romans. nyu 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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708 pages ; 25 cm Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. "In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him--and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can't exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness''--Dust jacket flap. Washington square -- Lipo-Wao-Nahele -- Zone Eight. adolescent Hanya Yanagihara. Maps on end papers. DLC n-us-ny n-us--- Gay men Fiction American Dream Fiction Homosexuels masculins Romans, nouvelles, etc Rêve américain Romans, nouvelles, etc FICTION / Literary FICTION / Dystopian FICTION / Asian American American Dream Gay men Race relations Gay men Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction United States Race relations Fiction États-Unis Relations raciales Romans, nouvelles, etc New York (State) New York United States New York (N.Y.) Fiction PS3625.A674 T6 2022 813.6 YAN/P 18.06 9780385547932 0385547935 9780385548410 0385548419 2021943460 Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 NjBwBT 210720 20231007161632.0 22143341 eng