Paul Monette in general

Borrowed Time - Paul Monette

deep breath and start reading.And, within just a few pages, I realised that my doubts had all been in vain. "Borrowed Time" is a memoir written by Paul Monette about his partner Roger, covering the nineteen month period between Roger's intial diagnosis and eventual death from A.I.D.S.It is one of the most touching love stories that I have ever read - proof, if it were needed, that caring, tenderness and devotion are not the sole perogative of heterosexual couples. This is a book which captures the reader on two levels. Firstly, it is an extremely personal and intimate story of two people sharing both the good times and the bad.(By 'intimate', ...

Borrowed Time - Paul Monette

"I don't know if I will live to finish this." So starts the memoir of Paul Monette. . . Finding this book on my reading list for a literature course, I certainly was not looking forward to spending a few days under an umbrella of gloom and misery. But I resisted the temptation to overlook it and plunged right in. I'm glad I did. It's a humbling experience to be faced with mortality, especially someone else's. Borrowed Time recounts the eighteen plus months where Paul Monette cared for his dying partner who was suffering from HIV and then AIDS. This is not a 'gay story' as such, simply an affirmation of compassion, ...