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Like People in History: A Gay American Epic Paperback – April 1, 1996

by Felice Picano (Author)

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Growing up together as second cousins and best friends--but opposite personalities--Roger Sansarc and Alistair Dodge fall in love with the same man, and together all of their lives are explored in relation to the milestones in recent gay history. Reprint. Tour. LJ.

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Product Details

Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Viking; 1st edition (June 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140245251
ISBN-13: 978-0140245257
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,072,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #16917 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Gay
- #160081 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
- #259320 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction

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Unforgettable

By JGarpo@aol.com on August 23, 2001

Format: Paperback

This is an update to my review of December, 1998. I read this book five years ago, and still I consider it one of my all-time favorite books. I have recommended it to just about everyone I know. Give it a try! You won't be disappointed! Other books I would like to recommend are Frontiers by Michael Jensen, Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai, Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, and Dream Boy by Michael Grimsley. The text of my previous review 12/28/98 is below:
This is one of those books that when you're finished, you wish you weren't! The characters are realistic, the dialogue is believable, and the plot totally engaging! It also helps us put "our" history into some perspective. It was interesting for me to compare being gay in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. I loved the characters in this book. You will recognize all of them. Don't let the length of this book scare you away - it's worth it, and you'll be wishing for more! His writing style takes a little getting used to as he jumps back and forth between time periods, but you'll get used to it! After I've read most books, I give them away to friends. This is one of those books that I can't bear to give up. It will have a place on my bookshelf forever. Oh, by the way, I read this book in the summer of 1996 ! :>

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A BIG JUICY WHOPPING OPUS

By Owen Keehnen on November 19, 2004

Format: Paperback

LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY is a meaty epic spanning 40 years and which chronicles the ups and downs of a love/hate/envy relationship between gorgeous and charismatic cousins Roger and Alistair. These boys are sooooo in the very thick of things that this juicy plot-driven novel also serves as a overall history of a lost gay generation. Wherever there's a place to be these boys are THERE - Woodstock, Fire Island, The 'A' list parties, ACT-UP, you name it. This book is also about changing over time and with age - maturing and adapting. Accomplished author Picano pours a wealth of drama, melodrama, and humor into this VERY absorbing pot boiler. Loose yourself in these pages...it's lotsa fun.

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I wasn't going finish it and then I wished I didn't have to!

By Russell Pollard on January 8, 2000

Format: Paperback

I first started to read this book a couple of years ago - having read his excellent book 'The Lure' and a couple of other things he'd written - but gave up about half way through, disappointed that it was not in the same league as 'The Lure' - a league that it's probably too hard for any writer to be in all of the time. Then this last Christmas, I gave it another shot and wouldn't you know, I didn't want it to end.
The characters are all a bit too beautiful, all a bit too talented, all a bit too free of the mundane realities that face the rest of us like bad haircuts and parking tickets, laundry and ironing, supermarket queues, emptying dishwashers, credit card debt, fighting middle age spread, and so on - like the real people in history we all know oursleves to be. And it is our history that Picano uses and most of us know it very well - so every once in a while it becomes rather unreal in his cleverly middle class retelling of it. The dilemmas however, that face his characters are the dilemmas that most of us faced as gay men during the past 20 or 30 years, whether in the US or anywhere else in the western world.
Picano may be all sorts of things. If he is anything like his central characters, I imagine him to be a bit full of himself, a bit egotistical. I imagine that his books are always a tad biographical, and I imagine that he really does believe that he has been at the epicentre of gay life in the US, even the entire universe, these past 30 or so years. What I actually do know is that he has an uncanny ability to engage me as a reader - well a lot of the time if not always. And when he does, I am invariably moved, changed, and feel better for it.Read more ›

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Marvelous

By A Customer on March 16, 2001

Format: Paperback

I've read this book 3 times now and I know I will read it again and again. Don't we all have our own image of Roger and, of course, Matt Loguidice. This is probably my second favorite gay novel, after How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden.

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"Like People In History" will make you laugh and cry.

By A Customer on July 21, 1998

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With "Like People In History" Felice Picano may have finally delivered his finest work. A masterpiece of gay literature, it serves up a generous helping of humor and pathos over a backdrop of 40 some-odd years of Gay history. Revolving around two cousins and their seemingly love-hate relationship, ( its amazing that Alistair lives as long as he does considering some of the stunts he pulls) the novel presents flawed but likeable characters living terribly interesting lives at a time when literally anything goes. Of course, it all came at a horrific cost and that is where the book transcends the "beach book" genre. Picano makes you fall for the characters despite their often irritating tendencies and frustrations. It is deeply affecting when Alister finally does go. I laughed till I cried and then I literally sobbed at the end. Truly one of the best books of the decade and a triumph for Picano. In short, its everything Edmond White's "Farewell Sy! mphony" tried to be and failed.

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A slice of our history

By Joseph Rios on November 20, 2001

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As a 20-something, I find it fascinating to read or hear about the lives of gay men during the last century. Picano weaves an intricate tale of the two cousins Roger and Alistair, about how their lives intersected at pivotal points in our shared gay history. I especially enjoyed the scenes set on Fire Island - though only a generation removed, the fun they depicted seems from another world. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the glbt movement in the latter half of the 20th century, and how remaining loyal and diligent to friendships can make a difference in our lives.

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one of my favorite books. I am Gay and this is the kind of epic story I can relate to. Maybe when people finally become tolerant they can make this book into a movie!

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Very very impressed!

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Hard to put this book down!

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