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“In this audio performance, there’s not a weak link to be found. Each narrator in the group brings something unique and enjoyable to the production…Each narrator voices a person whose life pulses within those walls, and each does so with a distinctive personality and a vocal quality that adds to Murphy’s intense characterizations. Thought-provoking, precise, complex, and real, Christodora’s narrators are a glorious reflection of the novel itself. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“A real New York narrative with an absorbing story line and a gallery of characters fit for a twenty-first-century Manhattan mural.” George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author
“Varied minds and voices are realized so convincingly…and it is joyous despite its subject matter.” New York Times Book Review
“One of the finest novels we are likely to encounter this year.” Toronto Star
“Vividly captures the diversity and tensions within the AIDS movement…No book has made me feel so intensely not just the ravages of AIDS but also the devastating cost of activism.” Washington Post
“Powerful and compelling. It feels deeply relevant even when it covers events set several decades in the past.” Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[A] brilliantly sprawling period novel about New York in the age of AIDS…richly populated and delicately nuanced.” Village Voice
“This sweeping tale of AIDS activists and the incredible changes they inspired is heart-wrenching, hopeful, and beautiful.” Book Riot
“Murphy has written The Bonfire of the Vanities for the age of AIDS…complete with a pitch-perfect deployment of period detail.” Publishers Weekly
“Activism, addiction, and the redemptive power of art feature prominently in Murphy’s perceptive novel.” Booklist (starred review)