Author: Shirl A. Jefferson Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462072593 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 81
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As an only child of a devout Christian couple, Kelly is raised to become the kind of daughter any parent would be proud of. Every choice she makes is grounded on the values and lessons her parents instilled in her. Kelly has a steadfast hold on her beliefs, one of which is to give herself only to the man she will marry. Her boyfriend believes otherwise and when Kelly refuses to give in to his desires, he leaves her for another woman. Kelly's attempts to get over her heartbreak and establish a successful business both fail. She decides to take her chance in New York where a job as a real estate broker awaits. Living a fastpaced life lifts Kelly's mind off her previous disappointment. With a great job and a more luxurious life, all Kelly needs is a man who will love and respect her. Kevin, an investment banker, enters Kelly's life and they immediately fall in love. Married life suits both Kelly and Kevin, until an undisclosed part of Kevin's past comes out in the open. Upon learning that she has been infected with HIV, Kelly finds out that Kevin had been in a homosexual relationship with a man who has AIDS. With the disease taking a toll on Kelly's body, Kevin decides to end their marriage and go on with their lives separately. Betrayed and brokenhearted, Kelly goes back home to her parents, where she spends the remaining days of her life.
Author: Leigh Ross Chambers Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472087488 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 162
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For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing It examines the genre not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. Through a detailed study of three such diaries, originating respectively in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading are linked by a common concern with the problematics of survivorhood. Two of the diaries chosen for special attention in this light are video diaries: La Pudeur ou l'impudeur by Hervé Guibert (author of To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life), and Silverlake Life, by the American videomaker Tom Joslin (aided by his lover and friends, notably Peter Friedman). The third is a defiant but anxious text, Unbecoming, by an American anthropologist, Eric Michaels, who died in Brisbane, Australia, in 1988. Other authors more briefly examined include Pascal de Duve, Bertrand Duquénelle, Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe, David Wojnarowicz, Gary Fisher, and the filmmaker (not a diarist) Laurie Lynd. Finally, Facing It takes on the issue of its own relevance, asking what contributions literary criticism can make in the midst of an epidemic. "Groundbreaking in its approach and potentially wide in its appeal. . . . The rigor of the ideas, their dramatic nature, and the political drive of the rhetoric all should win Facing It a large readership that could extend far beyond students of narrative or queer theory." --David Bergman, Towson University, editor of Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality Ross Chambers is Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, and author of Room for Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative and Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction.
Author: Sarah Hope Publisher: ISBN: 9781079480603 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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MY PRIVATE DIARY There is a German proverb which says, "Hope is the last to die" Maybe this book can help you. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Cover comes with a looped ribbon that represents support for the patient or survivor. The journal has soft covers and is perfect bound so pages will not fallout. The 6" x 9" Format means there is enough space for your notes. Spacious 6" x 9" Format. 120 Pages for your own wishes, notes, thoughts White Paper with plaid Pages Perfect new Bound so Pages will not fall out Fantastic Unique Colored Ribbon Awareness Cover.
Author: Hervé Guibert Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823268586 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 96
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By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death—as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats—at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert’s work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness.
Author: Sarah Hope Publisher: ISBN: 9781079410884 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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MY PRIVATE DIARY There is a German proverb which says, "Hope is the last to die" Maybe this book can help you. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The Cover comes with a looped ribbon that represents support for the patient or survivor. The journal has soft covers and is perfect bound so pages will not fallout. The 6" x 9" Format means there is enough space for your notes. Spacious 6" x 9" Format. 120 Pages for your own wishes, notes, thoughts White Paper with lined Pages Perfect new Bound so Pages will not fall out Fantastic Unique Colored Ribbon Awareness Cover.
Author: Beatrice Sparks Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0380773155 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 310
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The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.
Author: Lou Sullivan Publisher: ISBN: 9781643620176 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 440
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Drawn from Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.
Author: Rabih Alameddine Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802190979 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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“Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award–nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times). Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and their families during the 1980s and 1990s, this “absolutely brilliant” novel mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments (Amy Tan). Clips and quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today in the debut novel of the author Michael Chabon calls “one of our most daring writers.” “A provocative, emotionally searing series of connected vignettes . . . For a nonlinear novel the images chosen retain a remarkable cohesion. Often sexually frank or jarringly violent, they merge into a graphic portrait of two cultures torn from the inside.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance . . . Funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before.” —The Oregonian “Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life.” —Yiyun Li
Author: Jack Simon Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 9780740729522 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 52
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Shares the words of five-year-old Jack as he struggled to understand the death of his sister Libby, a child born with a rare disorder.
Author: Shirl A. Jefferson
Author: Leigh Ross Chambers
Author: Sarah Hope
Author: Hervé Guibert
Author: Sarah Hope
Author: Beatrice Sparks
Author: Lou Sullivan
Author: Abraham Verghese
Author: Rabih Alameddine
Author: Jack Simon