by David France · Penguin Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307745439
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«How to Survive a Plague» is the historical essay by David France, published by Penguin Random House in paperback (656 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the response of AIDS activism in the United States: HIV-positive people and their allies who, faced with the abandonment of authorities, educated themselves, pressured governments and pharmaceutical companies, founded their own information channels, and helped turn HIV from a death sentence into a chronic illness.
The work was originally published in 2016 and the edition described here appeared in 2017; it received the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
Aimed at those seeking a documented chronicle of AIDS activism from the perspective of its protagonists.
