Borrowed Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Monette
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Memoir and cultural criticism
- Time of Work: 1981-1986
- Setting: Los Angeles, CA
- Principal Characters: Paul Monette, Roger Horwitz, Sam, Cesar, Dennis Cope
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Social issues, Health and medicine
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Death or dying, Medicine, AIDS, Diseases
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Paul Monette's Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir is one of the first books of its kind about the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) virus: a personal narrative that puts the disease in the context of everyday life. Such an account, while fully acknowledging the suffering and anger and loss of AIDS victims and their loved ones, helps to demystify the disease. Indeed, because of the dearth of information about AIDS and the urgent need for a forum to disseminate that information, Borrowed Time contains a relatively full discussion of statistics, drug information,...
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