The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

earliest edition we have, 2018 Penguin Books, 2019 paperback 448 pages

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have...

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Editions we hold

The Great Believers paperback · 2019 · Large Print Press · 750 pages · 9781432869632
The Great Believers edition · 2019 · Thorndike Press Large Print · 737 pages · 9781432859701
The Great Believers edition · 2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 528 pages · 9780708899120
The Great Believers paperback · 2019 · Penguin Books · 448 pages · 9780735223530
Great Believers edition · 2018 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780708899106
The great believers edition · 2018 · Viking · 421 pages · 9780735223523
The Great Believers hardcover · Fleet · 9780708899137

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