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People in Trouble Paperback – September 19, 2019

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''A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago'' Olivia Laing

First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. The perfect novel to read after bingeing It''s A Sin.

It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.

It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She''s having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who works part-time in a movie theater.

At one of many funerals during an unbearably hot summer, Molly becomes involved with a guerrilla activist group fighting for people with AIDS. But Kate is more cautious, and Peter is bewildered by the changes he''s seeing in his city and, most crucially, in his wife.

Soon the trio learn how tragedy warps even the closest relationships, and that anger - and its absence - can make the difference between life and death.

''Strong, nervy and challenging''New York Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (September 19, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529111366
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529111361
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 0.67 x 5.04 inches
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Sarah Schulman is the author of novels, nonfiction books, plays and movies. Forthcoming in May 2021, LET THE RECORD SHOW: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993 (FSG). Her most recent novels are MAGGIE TERRY and THE COSMOPOLITANS,(The Feminist Press) which was picked as one of the "Best Books of 2016" by Publishers' Weekly, and a nonfiction book CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair (Arsenal). She recently published ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND THE QUEER INTERNATIONAL from Duke University Press, THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: WItness to a Lost Imagination by University of California Press, the paperback of TIES THAT BIND: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences and the paperback edition of her novel THE MERE FUTURE from Arsenal Pulp.Previous novels are THE CHILD, SHIMMER, EMPATHY, RAT BOHEMIA, PEOPLE IN TROUBLE, AFTER DELORES, GIRLS VISIONS AND EVERYTHING and THE SOPHIE HOROWITZ STORY. Her nonfiction titles are TIES THAT BIND: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, STAGESTRUCK:Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America, and MY AMERICAN HISTORY: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. A working playwright, her productions include: CARSON McCULLERS (published by Playscripts Ink), MANIC FLIGHT REACTION and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Singer's ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY. As a screenwriter, her films include THE OWLS (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)- Berlin Film Festival 2010, MOMMY IS COMING (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)- Berlin Film Festival selection 2011. and JASON AND SHIRLEY, directed by Stephen Winter (Museum of Modern Art). She is co-producer with Jim Hubbard of his feature documentary UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP. As a journalist, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwrighting, a Fullbright in Judaic Studies, two American Library Association Book Awards, and is the 2009 recipient of the Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York, College of State Island, a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. A member of the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, Sarah is faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at The College of Staten Island. She lives in New York.

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  • Paytan Mann
    5.0 out of 5 stars Profound
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2021
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    A very good expose of sorts on the sort of people AIDS affected and those who it didn’t. A sort of morality vs mortality.
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  • chris stanton
    4.0 out of 5 stars Passionate, raw and vital
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
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    Passionate, raw and vital. 4.5 stars.
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  • Nicole
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very good read.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2014
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    Similar to the play RENT. A very good read.
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  • John Labella
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not one of my favorite Schulman books at first . . .
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2008
    I didn't love this book as much as other Sarah Schulman novels at first. But it grows on me over time. The story is based on her personal experiences and parts of it were foreign to me since I never lived in an kind of ghetto. For folks outside the gay urban community of that time, it may seem as foreign as the environment in a Shakespeare play.

    There's no need to mention the many similiarities with RENT because these were acknowledged by the composer J. Larson before he died. More importantly, discussing comparisons between RENT and People in Trouble mistakenly gives the impression that the two works of art are comparable in important ways, which is absolutely not true. It *is* possible to enjoy one without trashing the other, but when you put them side by side, the musical strikes some false notes to people who actually lived through the early years of the AIDS epidemic, or who were gay and lived during the 70s and 80's.

    Larson's musical is a romanticized version of poverty and true love and has some beloved songs and touching scenes. The various characters are whitewashed as is to be expected for Broadway audiences; no body odor, no unpleasant character traits - and neither poverty and heroin addiction can destroy those beautiful white teeth and that shiny hair. Its a lovely but false story like the black and white TV characters in PLEASANTVILLE and it's a great example of art as escapist fare.

    Sarah Schulman's novel is a real world version of the AIDS and gay experience story, and it will be harder reading for some people as a result. It may seem a 'rougher' experience, but think of it this way: if you look at two bowls side by side: one unearthed by archeologists from 4000 BC, and the other made by a 20th century artisan that is stunningly crafted and finished, the later bowl is clearly more beautiful. BUT THE OLDER BOWL WAS THE FIRST ONE, AND THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY INVENTED THAT FIRST 'BOWL' IS a whole universe more original than the 20th century craftsman who made something beautiful after studying 6000 other attempts.

    Also: reading People in Trouble is uncomfortable only when it's *meant* to be uncomfortable. It doesn't have accidentally ugly implications that make your pleasure feel a bit guilty. In contrast, the musical occasionaly presents lies about the early AIDS experience in New York, and also makes the unfortunate choice of depicting, side by side, 1) a nasty bickering lesbian relationship; 2) a sad-but-sweet gay relationship that ends in death; adn 3) a sexy and romantic straight relationship that is the only one to survive the end of the show. Oppression comes in a new guise these days.

    No matter how you try to get around it, that kind of thoughtless prioritizing of a straight relationship over the gay ones is pretty damaging for so many people. You'd only know this if you every had the fifty million models for your own life taken away as if they'd never existed.

    So this novel is a great experience for peopel who want to know about AIDS in the early years, and for gays and lesbians who want to know their history.
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  • Tex Clark
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book- The basis for RENT?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 1998
    Sarah Schulman is one of my very favorite writers in the world. Heck, just the fact she's on the planet makes me smile. In People in Trouble, Schulman returns to themes in all her books, Queerness, loss, and being lost. Incidentally, the plot of this novel is a heck of a lot like that musical RENT. So similar that it can't be a coincidence. And this book came first....
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  • D.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Happy with the order
    Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2015
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    Arrived as advertised. Happy with the order.
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