Rebecca Makkai
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English
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"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...
3) The borrower
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lucy Hull and Ian Drake travel from Missouri to Vermont, and while Ian is running away from his parents, Lucy contemplates if she is also fleeing from something rather than just helping Ian on his journey.