Urn:oclc:873838671 Scandate 20100209224227 Scanner . Harper Perennial, 12.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-9-9 Wrenching in its detail, this account of the author's final two years with his companion Roger. OL658340W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.42 Pages 360 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0006543960
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This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:45:15 Boxid IA109712 Boxid_2 CH112401 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is part love story, part testimony, and part requiem. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS crisis tells the story of love in the face of death.Ī finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Borrowed Time was one of the first memoirs to deal candidly with AIDS and is as moving and relevant now as it was more than twenty-five years ago. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to understand this mysterious and virulent disease, Monette and others like him were coming to terms with unfathomable loss. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. 'Afterlife' (1990) is the story of three gay men who meet in a hospital as. "An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss" from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man ( Publishers Weekly). Monette wrote several novels, all dealing with the devastating effects of AIDS on gay men.
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