The American People

"The American People is mesmerizing . . . Larry Kramer's writing is so accessible, so human, so personal, so caring, so heartfelt, so courageous and so resonant . . . It's a Swiftian journey through an America we never knew; a Voltairean satire of American life and ways; a literary offspring of Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Myra Brenckenridge; a pornographic American history through the eyes of a Henry Miller; a Robin Cook medical mystery. It's a Sinclairean expose of American industrial and corporate skulduggery, and otherwise breathtakingly testimonial to the art of muckraking. It's a treasure trove of historical findings, especially of the history of sex in America . . . And it's the grandest telling yet of Kramer's own story . . . The American People is likely to find its place among the notable works of the Western canon." --Lawrence D. Mass, The Huffington Post

"A work of sustained passion . . . Formidable." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"[Larry Kramer's] magnum opus . . . There are times when the reader will feel like the audience at Springtime for Hitler. One will also find oneself laughing out loud, thinking hard, and being thrilled that someone has taken on American history from the viewpoint of gay people . . . a roller coaster of a book." --Andrew Holleran, The Advocate

"Immense, sprawling, subversive . . . A protracted display of pyrotechnic virtuosity." --Steve Donoghue, The Washington Post

"Breathtakingly well-written. And how could one not keep reading, no matter how endless, a book with a line such as 'You don't just drop a penis like Tibby's into the narrative and let it go'?" --Kirkus (starred review)

"Wildly inventive . . . [A] formidable and admirable literary experiment . . . It has many brilliant and harrowing passages; it is grotesque and macabre in ways that so many somewhat antiseptic works of conventional American fiction these days won't dare." --Jacob Bacharach, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Kramer is a singular force, furious because he cares. He honestly confronts hard, unspoken truths and goes somewhere with them, which is a rare thing." --T Fleischmann, Publishers Weekly (boxed, signature review)

"Larry Kramer is one of America's most valuable troublemakers. I hope he never lowers his voice." --Susan Sontag

"Larry Kramer has been a prophet of psychic health and catastrophe among us--a prophet unmatched for the accuracy of his omens and the reliability of his anathemas and remedies." --The American Academy of Arts and Letters

"Larry Kramer's magnum opus" --Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair

"A raunchy, epic revision of U.S. history." --GQ

"A wildly imaginative retelling of American history with homosexuality center stage." --Newsday