num_pages: 512
description: This is a gay American epic novel with wide popular appeal. 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 entertainingly moving and supremely entertaining.Picano -- best-selling author, founder of the first gay publishing house in New York, and one of the original seven members of the legendary Violet Quill Club -- uniquely captures American gay life and subculture during the last half of the 20th century in this brilliantly written saga.
language: English
title: Like People in History: A Gay American Epic
titlecomplete: Like People in History: A Gay American Epic
characters: Alistair Dodge, Roger Sansarc
genres: Fiction, Historical, M M Romance, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Gay
ratings_count: 1993
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction
publisher: Viking