As explained in the introduction, what characterizes Kushner’s writing, among other things, is his interest in the peculiar and crucial moments in one nation’s history. Therefore, here he chooses the USA of the 1980s as the setting for his highly political debate in which he questions Reagan’s national politics, especially his relation to the gay community of the period and contrasts it with the new wave of politics appearing on the far horizon, in Russia. The narrative focuses on the lives of two couples, the typist Louis Ironson and his AIDS-diagnosed lover Prior Walter, and the Mormon law clerk Joe Pitt and his Valium-addicted, agoraphobic wife Harper, who interact with the set of equally intriguing characters. Kushner goes to such lengths