How to survive a plague
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France
Alfred A. Knopf - Vintage - Picador - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
One of the Best Books of the Year
The New York Times • San Francisco Chronicle • The New Yorker • Newsweek • The Economist
"This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field, the best book on the pretreatment years of the epidemic since Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On (1987) which it corrects in places." —Oliver Thring, The Sunday Times (London)
“Breathtakingly important. . . . David France managed to simultaneously break my heart and rekindle my anger.” —Steven Petrow, The Washington Post
“Inspiring. We owe so much to those brave activists and to Mr. France for writing this vital book.” —Anderson Cooper, The Wall Street Journal
“France delivers a monumental punch in the gut; his book is as moving and involving as a Russian novel. . . . An intimate, searing memoir and a vivid, detailed history.” —The Washington Post
“A riveting, galvanizing account.” —The New Yorker
“So real to someone who witnessed it that I had to put this volume down and catch my breath.” —Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review
“A remarkably written and highly relevant record of what angry, invested citizens can come together to achieve, and a moving and instructive testament to one community’s refusal—in the face of ignorance, hatred and death—to be silenced or to give up.” —Chicago Tribune
"How to Survive a Plague is a definitive, long-awaited and essential account of the plague years—haunting and hopeful, devastating and uplifting. Incredibly important." —Rebecca Skloot, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Awards:
the Bailie gifford prize for non-fiction 2017
The Green Carnation Prize 2017
Lambda Literary award for LGBTQ Nonfiction 2017
THe publishing triangle randy shilts award for Gay non-fiction
Shortlist:
The wellcome book prize (2017)
“Spectacular and soulful.”
“Masterful....A salient reminder of what can be achieve by citizens who remain unbowed and unbroken.”
“The definitive book on AIDS activism.”
“The verdict: Stunning in its insight.”
Our fathers
The secret life of the catholic church in
an age of scandal
by David France
Broadway Books - Random House
"Our Fathers has a kind of compulsive readability that paradoxically accompanies the feeling of being overwhelmed...France succeeds marvelously." —Mary Gordon, New York Times Book Review
"Our Fathers adopts the ambitious format of works of living history like And the Band Played On and Common Ground...a valuable...sometimes shocking account." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"[France's] narrative sweep is generous, authoritative, smart, powerful, and— at the risk of using a much abused term—novelistic. The cast of characters brought to life is impressive...The admiration David France earns is rivaled only by the heartbreak and indignation generated by his brave, important book." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Our Fathers will appeal to a broad audience—a good read, well-balanced and well-researched." —National Catholic Reporter
“Shocking! Makes Basic Instinct seem like a tease.”
Bag of toys
SEX, SCANDAL, AND THE DEATH MASK MURDER
By David France
Warner Books - Pinnacle
"More frightening than Silence of the Lambs...because every detail is true!" —The Flint Journal
"From the international art scene to the dungeons of Manhattan's sex clubs...A real-life horror story that will make your hair stand on end." —Steven Gaines, Author of Simply Halston
"(France's) demon research goes a long way to persuade us that justice has miscarried, that Andrew Crispo should not be a free man today." —Grace Glueck, New York Times Book Review