OL658340W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.22 Pages 358 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0380707799 Urn:lcp:borrowedtimeaid000mone:epub:7fd9e84c-6f7c-44fc-a099-419b7603df80 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier borrowedtimeaid000mone Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t15m7857d Isbn 9780156005814Ġ156005816 Lccn 98219384 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL489059M Openlibrary_edition Monette's moving history is just such a fragment for future generations, a touchstone reference to a tragic time that we cannot allow to be erased.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:42:05 Boxid IA151201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Diego Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Harvest ed. ``A gay man seeks his history in mythic fragments, random as blocks of stone in the ruins covered in Greek characters, gradually being erased in the summer rain,'' the author writes of a trip to Greece he and Horwitz took shortly before the diagnosis.
gay elite, Horwitz was no typical AIDS patient: Monette maneuvered him into various experimental programs (he was the first AIDS patient west of the Mississippi to have access to AZT), and the firsthand glimpse of the ``netherworld of the sick,'' negotiating the byzantine route to the next ``magic bullet'' offers vivid confirmation of the human cost of the government's initial policy of informed neglect. Affluent and exceptionally well connected in the L.A. Despite its universal resonances, the book is perhaps most valuable as a vital addition to the literature of the AIDS epidemic. Monette brings to the narrative a poet's eye for the telling image or metaphor, and makes this far more than a simple compendium of medical disasters: the memoir transcends the particulars of the AIDS epidemic to stand as an eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss, the courage of the ill and the anger, fear and dedication of their loved ones. Poet and novelist Monette (Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog) applies admirable candor and control to the task of chronicling the suffering endured in the months between the diagnosis and death of the man with whom he had spent over 10 years. Wrenching in its detail, this account of the author's final two years with his companion and ``beloved friend'' Roger Horwitz, who died of AIDS in 1986, personalizes the epidemic's appalling statistics with heartbreaking clarity.
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