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title: "The Great Believers"
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# The Great Believers

**Brand:** rebecca makkai
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## Customer Reviews

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    Gripping and devastating
  

*by I***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2023*

An excellent choice of book if you’re someone that doesn’t know a huge amount about the AIDS crisis. It’s different, enlightening and very well written.

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    Great fiction about AIDS in 80s America. Read this.
  

*by F***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2018*

I loved this book and would like to read more like it, or by this author. I felt very sorry for Yale and for Fiona. By the end of the book I hated manipulative and hypocritical Bill and was deeply aggravated by shallow Roman. I would have liked to know more about Charlie's story, and seen things through his eyes too, even though he was not a nice character. I think his tragedy was that he probably did love Yale, even while he did bad,stupid and selfish things and treated him badly. I do think that Yale deserved better than Charlie - and for better things to happen to him - but when has the world ever been fair? I enjoyed reading about how the AIDS crisis affected the community in an American city in the eighties because it is a subject that fascinates me, from a human and social perspective. The very best and the very worst of humanity when faced with a medical and humanitarian crisis. Also the legacy of this time: both good and bad. It is a positive thing that fiction is now exploring the AIDS crisis, its effects and after-shocks in this multi-dimensional and retrospective way, at a time when it seems to be fading from people's minds, when some people are either denying or diminishing its horror, its impact upon a whole generation. And especially when a new generation, who never experienced what the previous one went through, are sometimes ignorant of this holocaust and of what they could learn from it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Thoughtful and engrossing
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2019*

The Great Believers is an engrossing novel set in two time frames with alternating chapters. The first timeline takes us back to the mid eighties in Chicago and is told from the perspective of a young gay man, Yale Tishman. Happily settled in a long term relationship with journalist and activist Charlie, his art gallery job is flourishing. Thanks to a tip off from a friend he is hoping to discover some previously unknown works from famous artists. Juxtaposed with this success though is the horror of the AIDS epidemic. One by one his friends in their close knit community start to succumb to this terrible disease.The second strand follows Fiona, 30 years later trying to track down her estranged daughter Claire. Fiona's brother Nico was one of the first of Yale's friends to die from AIDS. Watching so many of her friends suffer and die has left Fiona with emotional scars and contributed to the breakdown of her relationship with Claire.The two strands twine together and tie up beautifully in the final chapter. It's an absorbing, often sad, but also frequently joyful read.

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