Borrowed Time

Name: Borrowed Time
Author: Paul Monette

by Paul Monette

Memoir documenting partner's prolonged illness and death during early AIDS crisis

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Paul Monette

Monette's Borrowed Time is the most anguished and beautifully written memoir of the AIDS crisis, documenting the illness and death of his partner Roger Horwitz with a grief that transformed into the most important personal testimony of the epidemic.

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