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 after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles ...
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 after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
Rebecca Makkai is the author of The Borrower, The Hundred-Year House, which won the Novel of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association, and Music for Wartime. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Harper's, and Tin House, among others. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
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… Yale was busy wondering if this was the governing factor of his life: the fear of getting his heart broken. Or rather, the need to protect the remaining scraps of his heart, the ones torn smaller by every breakup, every failure, every funeral, every day on earth. (查看原文)
This is the most beautiful book I’ve read in recent memory. Riveting. Human. Capacious. But most of all it feels like it’s about loving this world as it is—-in all its messy, tragic glory. As I tell m...This is the most beautiful book I’ve read in recent memory. Riveting. Human. Capacious. But most of all it feels like it’s about loving this world as it is—-in all its messy, tragic glory. As I tell my boy so much that I could make a hanging wall on that, “you are not perfect for the world, but just that perfect for me ”.(展开)
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0 有用 猪猪和辉辉 2019-05-20 10:40:47
This is the most beautiful book I’ve read in recent memory. Riveting. Human. Capacious. But most of all it feels like it’s about loving this world as it is—-in all its messy, tragic glory. As I tell m... This is the most beautiful book I’ve read in recent memory. Riveting. Human. Capacious. But most of all it feels like it’s about loving this world as it is—-in all its messy, tragic glory. As I tell my boy so much that I could make a hanging wall on that, “you are not perfect for the world, but just that perfect for me ”. (展开)
0 有用 🍔 2025-04-12 21:04:03 美国
到后面还是很上头的
0 有用 林菲茵 2024-08-04 19:19:28 浙江
故事很普啊，三段故事，没明白作者想表达什么，爱的失败？毒鸡汤的感觉……
0 有用 ZZ 2019-02-11 06:18:52
不能完全说看过了，看到一半弃之。这个个写作干巴巴的，故事也不吸引人。朗读者也不引人入胜，不知道作者想说啥？
0 有用 Mona 2020-02-17 15:40:15
《伟大的信徒》 听书 没有很认真