Borrowed Time
An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette · first published 1988
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This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the PEN Center West literary award.
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All of Paul Monette's writings are worth reading. As a young gay person, after reading Borrowed Time in particular, I am now painfully aware of how lucky I am to have been born when I was. Meeting people who have lived with HIV for a long time when I moved to SF just reinforced that. It may feel like…
on “Last Men Standing: the luck to survive AIDS, and the misfortune to live on” ↗Just reading Borrowed Time (a few years back) left me with strong feelings of a painful and dark epoch, I can't even imagine how harrowing it must have been to live through it and come through to the other side. Godspeed and long…
on “Last Men Standing: the luck to survive AIDS, and the misfortune to live on” ↗