![]() ![]() The lines we can draw between that time and the ’80s are fascinating to me. ![]() I was particularly interested in those who regrouped in Paris after the war, who tried to recreate some of what had been lost. ![]() The arts scene in Paris was interrupted by WWI and between the war and the influenza of 1918, a whole generation was decimated. The Great Believers Kindle Edition by Rebecca Makkai (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4,993 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The Great Believers, Lake Success, There There, Warlight, For more reading recommendations, visit the NPR 2018 Book Concierge more than 300 titles, hand-picked by NPR staff and book. In particular, I was struck by the similarities between the way Paris was a refuge for so many misfit artists, and the role big American cities like Chicago have played for young LGBTQA+ people. The parallels between that generation and the generation we lost in the ’80s is something I explore in the novel. I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and saw death ahead, and were reprieved-and who now walk the long stormy summer.”įitzgerald is referring to the lost generation, and the quote struck me as so counterintuitive-we often think of that generation as jaded and worldly. The Great Believers is, as far as I know, among the first novels to chronicle the AIDS epidemic from its initial outbreak to the present among the first, that is, to convey the terrors and. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald quote that serves as one of the novel’s epigraphs: ![]()
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