Borrowed Time
Paul Monette
The author tells of the love and passionate struggle that he and longtime companion Roger Horwitz shared as Roger, a victim of AIDS, deteriorated, and the two men exhausted every avenue of medical help to prolong and improve his life.
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author ofBecoming a Man(Publishers Weekly).
In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would
share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of
complications from AIDS.Borrowed Time
traces this love story from start to tragic finish. 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. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS
crisis tells the story of love in the face of death.
A 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.
Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is
part love story, part testimony, and part requiem.
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.
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author ofBecoming a Man(Publishers Weekly).
In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would
share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of
complications from AIDS.Borrowed Time
traces this love story from start to tragic finish. 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. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS
crisis tells the story of love in the face of death.
A 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.
Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is
part love story, part testimony, and part requiem.
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.
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Year:
1998
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language:
english
Pages:
342
ISBN 10:
0156005816
ISBN 13:
9780156005814
File:
EPUB, 2.25 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1998
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