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Original Title:	Like people in history
ISBN:	0349108382 (ISBN13: 9780349108384)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Roger Sansarc, Alistair Dodge
Literary Awards:	Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1996), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Men's Fiction (1996)

Like People in History

Felice Picano

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1797 Users | 90 Reviews

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Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay- identity.

Through the lends of their complex, tumultuous, yet enduring relationship - and their involvement with the handsome model, poet and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice, whom they both love - Felice Picano chronicles and celebrates gay life and subculture over the last half of the twentieth century.

From Malibu Beach in its palmist surfer days to the legendary parties at Fire Island Pines in the 1970s, from San Francisco during its gayest era to AIDS activism in Greenwich Village in the 1990s, Like People in History presents 'the heroic and funny saga of the last three decades by someone who saw everything and forgot nothing' (Edmund White).

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Title	:	Like People in History
Author	:	Felice Picano
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	June 6th 1996 by Little Brown and Company (first published July 3rd 1995)
Categories	:	LGBT. Fiction. Gay. GLBT. Queer. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. M M Romance. Gay Fiction

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Ratings: 4.01 From 1797 Users | 90 Reviews

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I love an epic family saga, even when family doesn't fit the nuclear husband/wife/2.4 child mold. In this official family ties were mostly limited to 2nd cousins, but sometimes it's the family you make that's most important. That is especially true for the gay community going through the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s. I'm not especially fond of the title of this book as it seems to misdirect your attention to the notorious in history. I'm not in charge of book titles, so this will remain

While this book would've really benefited from a good editor, it was still a pretty enjoyable read. A big, sprawling, campy retelling of American history from the early 1960s through the 1980s from the perspective of a young gay writer. I'd recommend it less for its craft and more as an archive of (mostly white, mostly male) gay social life. The frame narrative is confusing and unnecessary, but the lengthy flashback sections give a great sense of the vibrancy of gay society in New York,

Disappointing. Read years back and, tough enjoyable at times, I found it totally over-rated



This is one of the best gay novels ever written!

A totally enjoyable albeit somewhat long book. I'm just half through it. The only part of the book that I have found uninteresting was in Book Four Chain of Fools when 2 of the characters who are both opera queens have lengthy conversations about works of opera. I'm sure if I were an opera aficionado I would have delighted in this as well. I simply skimmed through most of their conversations since it was so out of my league.

Another gay history published as fiction but covering a significant period of US Gay history. This book follows the lives of two cousins and the people they meet during their lives. It covers the period from their childhood in the early 50s through the stonewall era and the onset of AIDS and deals with the love/hate relationship of the two vastly different main characters..Again a book worth reading because it is good fiction but also because of its insight into the era