<div>Two award-winning plays from the legendary activist and dramatist who has been called &ldquo;one of the best writers of our times.&rdquo; (Lambda Book Report) The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me is the stirring story of an AIDs activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing. The Normal Heart was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain The Destiny of Me was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a double Obie winner, and the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play of the Year. Introduction by Tony Kushner. &ldquo;Wired with anger, electric with rage. . . . Powerful stuff.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe</div>

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<div>&ldquo;A book of major historical importance&mdash;the first contemporary novel to chronicle gay life with unsparing honesty and wild humor.&rdquo;&mdash;Erica Jong In print since its original publication in 1978, Larry Kramer&rsquo;s Faggots has become one of the bestselling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man&rsquo;s desperate search for love there, and reading it today is a fascinating look at how much, and how little, has changed. &ldquo;As a documentation of an era, as savage and savagely funny social parody, as a cry in the wilderness, and as a prescient, accurate reading of the writing on the wall, the novel is peerless and utterly necessary. It is brilliant, bellicose, contemptuous, compassionate and&mdash;as is true of everything Kramer writes&mdash;behind its delectable, entertaining, sometimes maddening harshness is a profoundly moving plea for justice and for love. There are few books in modern gay fiction, or modern fiction for that matter, that must be read. Faggots is certainly one of them.&rdquo;&mdash;Tony Kushner &ldquo;A Vesuvian explosion about the gay life that spares no one and no thing . . . there is much truth and honesty to be found here.&rdquo;&mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;True comic brilliance&mdash;a vicious Swiftian satire that, like all satire, contains a strong moral voice.&rdquo;&mdash;New York &ldquo;Faggots, for all its excesses, is frequently right on target and, when it is on target, is appallingly funny.&rdquo;&mdash;Edward Albee &ldquo;Larry Kramer is one of America&rsquo;s most valuable troublemakers. I hope he never lowers his voice.&rdquo;&mdash;Susan Sontag</div>

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<div>Screenplays and scripts from the playwright of The Normal Heart. &ldquo;A valuable showcase of an important writer&rsquo;s early career.&rdquo;&mdash;The Bay Area Reporter Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s most valuable troublemakers.&rdquo; As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this collection of writings for the screen and stage, &ldquo;his plays are almost journalistic in their observation of the fine-grained documentary details of life . . . that may well prove timeless.&rdquo; The title work, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Women in Love, is a movie &ldquo;as sensuous as anything you&rsquo;ve probably ever seen on film&rdquo; (The New York Times). The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer&rsquo;s reflections on the history of the production, sure to be of interest to any student of film. This volume also includes several early plays, Sissies&rsquo; Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, and the political farce Just Say No, illuminating the development of one of our most important literary figures. &ldquo;Since his screenplay for Women in Love, Kramer has been a prophet of psychic health and catastrophe among us.&rdquo; (from The American Academy of Arts and Letters citation). Women in Love &ldquo;A visual stunner and very likely the most sensual film ever made.&rdquo;&mdash;New York Daily News &ldquo;Throughout Larry Kramer&rsquo;s literate scenario, the Lawrentian themes blaze and gutter. The sooty mind-crushing coal mines that Lawrence knew like the back of his hand are re-created in all their malignance. The annealing quality of sex is exhibited in the most erotic&mdash;and tasteful&mdash;lust scenes anywhere in contemporary film.&rdquo;&mdash;Time</div>

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