Christodora: A Novel -- Tim Murphy

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        Picador, 2016, Large-format Paperback - Fiction - 432 pp.

         In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattans East Village, the Christodora. An entirely absorbing portrait of how ambition, compulsion, and trauma form and reform the lives of us all, Christodora is a closely-observed panoramic novel that powerfully evokes the danger, chaos, and wonder of New York City-and the strange and moving ways in which its dwellers' lives can intersect.

        PRAISE FOR CHRISTODORA

        "A capacious historical novel that vividly recreates the lost world of downtown Manhattan in the eighties" - Jay McInerney.  'An engrossing and inspiring story of loss, love and hope, set against a backdrop of art, activism and addiction.' - Observer.          "An impassioned, big-hearted, and ultimately hopeful chronicle of a changing New York that authoritatively evokes the despair and panic in the city at the height of the plague." Hanya Yanagihara.

         "A moving portrait of New York in the time of AIDS ... This spectacular novel is an important addition to literature that captures New York in all its glory and despair." - Candace Bushnell.

         "Murphy has written The Bonfire of the Vanities for the age of AIDS ... A powerful evocation of the plague years." - Publishers' Weekly.

         "An ambitious social novel informed by an extended perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, from the early 1980s to the near future ... A poignant ... exploration of a health crisis that hasn't yet ended." - Kirkus Reviews.

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