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In this magisterial novel's 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 live as loving same-sex couples only to fall victim to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, a religious sect tries to exterminate homosexuals, and the AIDS virus begins to spread. Against all this, Kramer sets the tender story of a middle-class family trying to get along in the darkest of times.
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- Published on: 2015-05-12
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Review
Breathtakingly well-written. And how could one not keep reading, no matter how endless, a book with a line such as 'You don't just drop a penis like Tibby's into the narrative and let it go'? (Kirkus (starred review))
Kramer is a singular force, furious because he cares. He honestly confronts hard, unspoken truths and goes somewhere with them, which is a rare thing. (T Fleischmann Publishers Weekly (boxed, signature review))
Larry Kramer is one of America's most valuable troublemakers. I hope he never lowers his voice. (Susan Sontag)
Larry Kramer has been a prophet of psychic health and catastrophe among us a prophet unmatched for the accuracy of his omens and the reliability of his anathemas and remedies. (The American Academy of Arts and Letters)
Larry Kramer's magnum opus (Elissa Schappel Vanity Fair)
A work of sustained passion . . . Formidable. --(Dwight Garner The New York Times)
About the Author
Larry Kramer is an award-winning playwright and author, and a celebrated public-health and gay-rights advocate. He wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and rose to further prominence with his bestselling novel, Faggots. A pioneering AIDS activist, he cofounded the Gay Men's Health Crisis in 1982 and founded ACT UP in 1987. Kramer has won numerous awards for his plays and in 2013 was named a Master American Dramatist by the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. In 2014, the HBO adaptation of his play The Normal Heart won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
April/May 2015 “…you don’t use the word like with that kind of book
By Adam D. Dunn
I don't understand how so many people can read this book and write a one-line review. The book is so long, and says so much, surely you felt something more??
At one point I wrote: I'm 64% done with The American People: This is the time of the wade. Wade through, wade on, stop for a breath, go faster to get to the end sooner, go slower or stop, the wading through.
Andrew Holleran, in an interview with Kramer in The Advocate, April/May 2015 “…you don’t use the word like with that kind of book. Stunned is the word. It was a roller coaster of a book. There were times when I was laughing out loud, there were times when I was putting the book down, there were times when I was, “yes yes yes,” there were times when I said, “Oh this is crazy.””
I really agree with all this. There's a five-star review of this book on Amazon where the reviewer says he slogged through it, and that's the kind of book this is. It's not going to be easy. Fa**ots also wasn't easy and I remember slogging through that too, reminding myself that if you put one foot in front of the next eventually you will finish and I felt that often reading this. Holleran also mentions the short chapter lengths which help you get through the book and I found that too. It would say "2 minutes left in this chapter" on my Kindle and I'd think "I can do two minutes." You put enough of those together and you'll get back to an interesting part, or a coherent part, again.
It's difficult to rate this book being that it's really only half a book, I need to see what's going to happen before I can fully decide. Many people have complained the book needs an editor, but it has had one. The book is 4000 pages long. You are getting 800 in part one and say another 800 in part two, that's 2400 pages cut. Kramer says after part two is published he plans to self-publish the remaining 2400 pages. I can't see anyone on earth reading that.
There were times reading this book I lost sleep, times I was mad, times I put the book down, times I learned things and times I didn't. Fa**ots had some humor to make the medicine go down and this book needs a lot more of that. Kramer writes in the same satirical tone for this book but it's not a satire, it's a history and it doesn't always work. The names of people, Masturbatov for example, the letters written and answered to people that don't exist, chapter titles like “IANTHE ADAMS STRODE REPLIES TO DAME LADY HERMIA BLEDD-WRENCH’S INQUIRY”, these things don't help. Plus there's a couple points in the narrative that are so over-the-top crazy I don't even know what to say. The Rabbi who saves boy's foreskins to fertilize his garden then eats his sons 10 year-old foreskin out of a jar of formaldehyde while he burns down the house. What does one say to that? Again, this is not a book you can just say you like or not.
Going through some quotes now, I felt the book often lost focus, and found the following statement at the beginning of the book:
“I, Laurence David Kramer, in my country of death, write this history of the plague, and of The American People before and during this time of plague, and of our people who have died from this plague, and of who and what caused this plague.”
Kramer much later says:
“I cannot seem to let go of every grain of detail, for each at some moment seems so important that I must scoop it up and slither it into my own voluminous vomit-out. The world must know everything!”
Well underline everything and put some butter on it. It's hard to say what is relevant in the book and what isn't as we don't know where the book is going, we've only got the first half. I would say the sections on the gayness of past American presidents is the weakest, this may tie in later to a homophobic culture suppressing the disease, the "underlying condition", but this book itself doesn't tie it in to anything. It seems to be put there simply because Tony Kushner refused to mention Lincoln's gayness in the movie he wrote, Kramer even mentions Kuchner by name in this book.
I would agree, as Kramer says:
“There are a lot of reasons why we continue to die in droves that have nothing to do with actual physical disease.”
There is no evidence though that AIDS started in America, in fact there is evidence it didn't. The concept that the disease had evolved and has been around in some form longer than anyone thinks is interesting. The idea that the disease evolved and that people's actions helped it is I think the point of the book, but it's really not explored fully or well. So many side tangents to wade through it's often hard to see the forest for the trees.
“Everyone has been infecting everyone else since the Garden of Eden. Of course we are all connected! Alas, it is up to us to figure out how and who. And few of us really want to sort all that out.”
Kramer often himself acknowledges the impossibility of the scope of the book and the many side-steps he's taking:
“Who is a**-feeding you all this manure? This is not history!”
“OK, back to the proverbial grindstone in attempting to sort out who’s who and what’s what and who did what and when and why are we here today, if we are here today, if we are anywhere today. I must be of firmer faith that eventually we shall get ourselves somewhere!”
“Where are your notes that would speed the narration of this horrid tragedy along while you keep clip-clopping around without a plan of action? At this rate we shall never get to The Underlying Condition!”
While at the same time talking to and answering himself:
“You continue to raise excellent questions, my dear old friend, Fred.”
Kramer calls the book non-fiction but then makes up sources where they don't otherwise exist. I've often thought there should be a book on bathhouses in America, the Everhard in NYC was open more than 100 years, there has to be a story there! So when Kramer references the book “Norbert and Noreen Curlue, A Handbook to America’s Most Welcoming Bathhouses, 1990” I looked it up, doesn't exist. Some of the other references to Yale I looked up and they do exist, so how can you keep any of it straight?
Also the book has many pseudonyms and it's almost impossible to keep them going in your mind as well. The book says “I Read in the Monument that Senator Vurd had 112 men fired for being homosexual.” So I Google Vurd, don't find him, and assume Vurd is a pseudonym for McCarthy. But then later the book says, “This was in 1949, not far from McCarthy and Vurd and Sam Sport and that gang.” Did I miss Vurd on my first search, is he made up, is he a combination of McCarthy and someone else, who knows.
Add to this confusion Kramer's own agenda and hyperbole:
“Henry Ford would destroy any place on earth as long as there was a Jew still living in it. The world will never know or believe this, that Henry Ford hates Jews even more than Hitler does.”
More than Hitler. It becomes clear that this non-fiction history is not going to be easy, or like any that have come before.
All this being said I liked how gay the book was, a line that I liked:
“I notice that when I think about his pe*is my own pe*is feels warmer, as if it wants to meet a friend.”
There's something here. The idea that AIDS evolved and was around earlier than we suspect. The concept of homophobia through the ages and how that relates to the spread of AIDS when it does eventually come out. The history of the study of disease in the United States, specifically sexually-transmitted diseases. There's also a lot of factors working against it, the view from Kramer's sometimes opaque lens and the fact that we only have half a story. I can't really form a final opinion until I see the rest.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
It is not an easy read, not for a summer on the beach
By Greg Rothman
This is an important book. It's hard to say what kind of a book it is and it may require it's own genre. It's called a novel. It could not be called a history. Perhaps semi-historical fantasia is correct.
It is not an easy read, not for a summer on the beach. It requires focus. It is at turns horrific, and at others hilarious. It is profound and heartfelt. And also disgusting and excremental. It is passionate and shows love for many of its characters.
They say history is written by the victors, which the gays (nor the Jews) never were. So Kramer is filling in those huge missing pieces in his way. One often does not know what to believe is true, or partially true, or not true at all. I think every reader will come to their own conclusions about this, right or wrong but surely not indifferent. When asked in an interview "how can you be absolutely certain George Washington was gay", Kramer replied "How can you be absolutely certain he was not gay". So this is where we are left.
I will say that I had a hard time finding my rhythm until about 75 pages in. But once you get beyond the midpoint or so, things begin to come together in a way that pushes you forward. I never thought I would say this about a book 775 pages in length, but it really did wrap up rather quickly toward the end. I am one who will be one of the first to read volume 2.
I do understand the negative reviews. I would not expect everyone to "like" this book. It's long and difficult and requires a reader with an attention span. But regardless of like ability, the importance of the book stands out. I'm not sure how anyone would feel otherwise.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
I admire Larry Kramer's passion just like everyone else does
By Amazon Customer
Sigh .... So yeah, I admire Larry Kramer's passion just like everyone else does. But there's a huge elephant in the room: He's not a good writer. And this is not a novel. The only reason this book was published--and reviewed tolerably in major publications like NYT--is because of WHO Larry Kramer is, not because of the quality of his writing. Who Larry Kramer is and what he's done during his life are not good enough reasons to waste $20 and LOTS of time trying to make sense of this mess. What's so frustrating to me is that Kramer seems to have a specific theory as to the origin of AIDS and how/why the major outbreak occurred circa 1980. That's what I wanted to find out. His hints are intriguing. That's all that's intriguing about this book. I expect he'll answer the question in Volume II but we'll have to slog through another 800 pages to try to get it. (I certainly can't think of another book whose reviewers use the word "slog" so universally.) The most frustrating aspect for me was that it reads like a roman a clef without a clef. Some of the characters are real. Some are based on real characters but changed. Some have fake names, others real, etc. Why? Kramer seems to want to "tell on" certain real-life individuals: so-and-so was closeted; so-and-so was a homophobe, etc. So why use a pseudonym for the Ronald Reagan character? We all know who it is. Does giving him a silly name add value somehow? Unfortunately it took me more than a week to get through this crap, so it's too late for me to ask for a refund of my e-book. Wish I could give it away and get the week and $20 back!
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