25th Anniversary Edition
LOS ANGELES—January 28, 2020—ReQueered Tales is honored and humbled to release the 25th Anniversary Edition of Felice Picano’s Like People In History to old friends and a new generation of readers.
“It’s the heroic and funny saga of the last three decades by someone who saw everything and forgot nothing.” – Edmund White
Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Novel for 1995, Gay Times Best Novel of the Year and Finalist for Lambda Literary Award Best Gay Fiction, Like People In History is Felice Picano’s most celebrated novel.
Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. Their lives constantly intersect at crucial moments in their personal histories as each discovers his own unique — and uniquely gay — identity. Their complex, tumultuous, and madcap relationship endures against 40 years of history and their involvement with the handsome model, poet, and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice, whom they both love. Picano chronicles and celebrates gay life and subculture over the last half of the twentieth century: from the legendary 1969 gathering at Woodstock to the legendary parties at Fire Island Pines in the 1970s, from Malibu Beach in its palmiest surfer days to San Francisco during its gayest era, from the cities and jungles of South Vietnam during the war to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and Upper East Side during the 1990s AIDS war.
In a book that could have been written only by one who lived it and survived to tell, Picano weaves a powerful saga of four decades in the lives of two men and their lovers, relatives, friends, and enemies. Tragic, comic, sexy, and romantic, filled with varied and colorful characters, Like People in History is both extraordinarily moving and supremely entertaining.
“Harrowing and sad, and very funny, Like People in History manages to bridge the unnerving chasm between the queer present and the gay past.” —Andrew Holleran
“A gay classic. Read it when I was in college and it helped shape my perception of myself as a gay man … It’s a sprawling, propulsive epic that switches back and forth in time, taking the reader on a rollicking journey through gay America” —Christopher Rice
First published in 1995, this 25th Anniversary Edition features a 2020 foreword by Montreal writer Richard Burnett and an afterword by the author.
LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY ebook:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TBgbHu
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2sRBZUt
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US $5.95 • CAN $7.95 • UK £4.95 • EU €5.95 • AU $8.95
Quality Trade Paperback, 512 pgs:
ISBN 978-1-951092-13-9
https://amzn.to/38EuIq8
US $21.95 • CAN $27.95 • UK £16.95
