Angels in America
New York in the middle 1980s: a young man with AIDS is left by the lover who cannot watch it, a closeted Mormon clerk is pushed toward the truth by his wife's pill-fed visions, and Roy Cohn instructs his doctor that what he has is liver cancer. The lives cross through hospital rooms, Brooklyn, Salt Lake City and a hallucinated Antarctica while something keeps trying to come through Prior Walter's ceiling. Kushner's two-part fantasia is the defining American work of the epidemic and of the Reagan decade.
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- influenced by ↑ Mother Courage and Her Children
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