Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Posted by admin | Posted in HIV | Posted on 25-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780156005814
- Condition: New
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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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‘Borrowed Time’ is the most unpretentious, cliche free account of love I’ve read. So much of it’s power lies in what Paul does not say about his lover: describing him most often as his most precious ‘friend’ he asks the reader to understand, to implicitly know the strength of his passion. The simple assumption that readers across cities, countries, cultures will understand his emotions is what gives the story so much beauty. I fell in love with both Paul and Roger, or more specifically, the strength of what they had together.
The battle against AIDS and discrimination faced by both men made me bawl, and I hope this book is read by people working through their prejudices and moral judgements about the both the illness and its prevalence in the gay community at the time the events occurred. Surely Paul and Roger’s love can only be seen as something beautiful that graced the earth, even briefly.
Rating: 5 / 5
More than anything, this book struck me as being a love story. Paul and Roger share a really warm, comfortable life…the kind most people hope to find with a partner. This makes the fact that Roger dies so young, of such a devestating illness, doubly tragic, because of all we know he is leaving behind. Paul Monette was a gifted writer, who showed a great deal of courage when he shared so personal a piece of his life with the world.
Rating: 4 / 5
Few accounts of real life situations ring completely true. There is often a sense of contrivance. Borrowed Time is a model of how such narrative should be written. Stunning (it stunned me) prose & a heart wrenching (but never gushing) memoir combine to produce a work of rare quality.
Rating: 5 / 5
I picked this book up in a thrift store last week and have just suffered with Paul and Roger as I read. Immediately I searched Amazon.com looking for other writings by Paul Monette and learned of his death in 1995. Now I’m really depressed. I’m straight, white, female, a wife and a mother of a 2 year old. Probably not Paul’s expected audience yet he reached me deeply. I feel tremendous compassion for anyone dying of AIDS and for those that love them. I will look for an opportunity to demonstrate love to someone with AIDS.
Rating: 5 / 5
Living with HIV and AIDS has changed a lot, from the unknown tragedy to the manageable state, hopefully towards a cure. Nontheless, there are still people who respond very negatively to this situation. “Borrowed time”, past and present, has been an outstanding example of role-models we all have a great deal to learn from. It ought to be translated into other languages, at least on behalf of education…
Rating: 5 / 5