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The American People: Author Larry Kramer Discusses His Latest Novel

9781250083302Independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes author Larry Kramer to discuss his latest novel, The American People Volume 1: Search for My Heart.

The American People sets forth Larry Kramer’s vision of his homeland and a re-imagining of our history. This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness.

In this 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 establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth’s motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals and the AIDS virus begins to spread.

Against all this, Kramer sets the intimate heartfelt story of a middle-class family outside Washington, D.C., trying to cope with the darkest of times.

This is a free event and Larry Kramer will be available to sign books following the discussion.











When: Thu., Apr. 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Where: Book Culture on Columbus
450 Columbus Ave.

Price: Free
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9781250083302Independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes author Larry Kramer to discuss his latest novel, The American People Volume 1: Search for My Heart.

The American People sets forth Larry Kramer’s vision of his homeland and a re-imagining of our history. This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to transcendent acts of courage and kindness.

In this 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 establish loving same-sex couples only to fall prey to the forces of bigotry. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth’s motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised. In the twentieth century, the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists, McCarthyites, and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals and the AIDS virus begins to spread.

Against all this, Kramer sets the intimate heartfelt story of a middle-class family outside Washington, D.C., trying to cope with the darkest of times.

This is a free event and Larry Kramer will be available to sign books following the discussion.

Buy tickets/get more info now