Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christodora (novel)
above editor beat me to it, so there will be repeats), doo, doo, doo, i wonder if there are any reviews of this book, ie. ''The Washington Post'' - https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/christodora-a-powerful-novel-about-the-aids-crisis-and-its-legacy/2016/07/31/80d0d670-55ac-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.301151066b96 "If the novel's first hundred pages are disorientating and occasionally plodding, the last hundred have a rare narrative sweep and force. The broad strokes and bald statements don't recede, exactly, but they're like the manipulations of a Puccini opera, so skillful that it seems churlish to object.", ''London Review of Books'' - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n07/adam-mars-jones/the-pills-in-the-fridge "Tim Murphy has written a generational family saga, but in the hope of writing something else.", ''Slate (magazine)|Slate'' - http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/09/29/tim_murphy_s_christodora_reviewed.html "His (Murphy) prose has an easy, fluent style with plentiful references to popular music (Madonna, Leonard Cohen, Lupe Fiasco), historical figures (Ed Koch, Marina Abramovic), and notable places (including in Los Angeles, where some of his scenes are set). He’s good at building scenes into dramatic, sometimes scary climaxes.", ''The New York Times'' - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/fashion/christodora-house-east-village-book.html "The book, a sprawling social novel in the Tom Wolfe tradition..." (snip), ''Newsday'' - https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/christodora-review-tim-murphy-s-rich-saga-of-new-york-in-the-age-of-aids-1.12110388 "It’s an exciting read, sometimes a little confusing, but ultimately all the pieces fit together; the reader’s patience is rewarded.", ''The Guardian'' - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/23/christodora-by-tim-murphy-review "What makes this novel remarkable, though, is the way it captures the full arc of Aids in New York, a subject Murphy has long covered as a reporter.", and https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/05/christodora-tim-murphy-aids-new-york-book-fiction-review "For fans of Bonfire of the Vanities or, more recently, Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire, this novel is your next must-read.", ''The Irish Times'' - https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-a-tale-of-manhattan-sex-drugs-and-aids-1.2975174 "Murphy pulls off a neat trick of placing two non-humans at the heart of the novel and bringing them entirely to life. One is the building itself which, often through the presence of the doorman Ardit, seems to silently judge its residents as they pass through the lobby. The other is a disease: Aids.", to just name a few, in additino to some "tradies" eg. ''Kirkus Reviews'' - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tim-murphy/christodora/ "An ambitious social novel informed by an extended perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, from the early 1980s to the near future.", ''Publishers Weekly'' - https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8021-2528-6 "Skipping back and forth in time over 40 years, and projecting itself into the near future, the novel achieves a powerful evocation of the plague years.", ''Booklist'' (starred review) - https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1620970082 "His multigenerational tale is a clever inversion of the usual addiction-begets-AIDS narrative and a reminder that despite recent medical advances, the disease still finds ways to ravage people's lives.",  no wonder WorldCat lists https://www.worldcat.org/title/christodora-a-novel/oclc/1014220459&referer=brief_results 650 library holdings from both sides of the pond and the ditch down under, so a '''keep''' as meeting  and . ps. i think a forecast of |snow is appropriate
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