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 The Darker Proof - Edmund White, Adam Mars-Jones
Description: ISBN 0571151884 / Author: Edmund White / Genre: Fiction / Collection of short stories about AIDS. Newest Review: ... honest with himself. He knows he baits Buddy because he is fascinated by and envious of his health and he knows that he ... more  ... watches every single tiny detail of Buddy’s vitality – the way he runs up and down the stairs to the flat full of energy, the way he arrives with hair still damp from swimming, a faint smell of chlorine still clinging to him. That is this man’s life – he is an observer and chronicler of his own decline and he marks it by his ‘buddy’ – his volunteer, a person he likes, is fascinated by, is grateful for, and yet can’t help being resentful of. There are another seven short ...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Faber and Faber, ISBN: 0571151884
Pages: 309, Edition: 2Rev Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber - Books/ ... |
£ 6.99 |
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The Darker Proof - Edmund White, Adam Mars-Jones: Slim (1480 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 04/04/01 (Very useful, 155 readings)
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There are a couple of great reviews here on dooyoo by Trevor15 and Nikkisly about “Borrowed Time” by Paul Monette – a non-fiction account of a man caring for his lover, a man terminally ill with AIDS. On their recommendation I bought and read the book and it was as good as they said, if you can call such an account ‘good’ – it needs reading. Go read their reviews and go buy the book. Anyway, those reviews, and the book, got me to thinking that I have a book I think needs reading too. So I got it off the shelf and read it again. And now I’m nagging you to buy it and read it too. The Darker Proof is a collection ...
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