Facing It: A Novel of AIDS - Softcover

Reed, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608643301 ISBN 13: 9781608643301

Verlag: Library of Homosexual Congress (A Rebel Satori Imprint), 2024

Inhaltsangabe

In midsummer 1981, when Andy Stone’s health began to fail, doctors could not diagnose his condition. Then news spread of the immune deficiency syndrome began to spread, and Andy, his lover, and his family had to face the inevitable diagnosis. Set against a background of medical politics, [this book] follows Andy’s proud struggle to understand his illness and to reconcile the conflicts it presents.
Originally published in 1984 by Gay Sunshine Press, Facing It: A Novel of AIDS, by Paul Reed (1956 – 2002), is the first American novel to deal with the emerging holocaust that is the AIDS crisis. The Library of Homosexual Congress, the Rebel Satori Press imprint curated by Tom Cardamone and Sven Davisson, is proud to re-introduce this book to new generations of readers while preserving this significant document of our gay literary heritage.
This edition features a new Introduction by Jerry Rosco, author of the biography Glenway Wescott Personally and editor of the Wescott journals Continual Lessons and A Heaven of Words.
“Facing It is that rare novel – published in 1984 it is one of the first fictional works about HIV/AIDS – that radiates both the fierce energy of dispatches from the front lines and nuanced emotional consideration of what it means to be alive. At times blunt, even brutish about the horrific inequities of the epidemic’s early years, Facing It chronicles the everyday details of living in a – personal, social, political, medical – crisis when the very act of writing sustains hope and resembles something like salvation.” –Michael Bronski, author of Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps, A Queer History of the United States, and co-editor of Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski
“Reed established himself at the forefront of the literary response to AIDS . . . Facing It: A Novel of AIDS narrates the emergent realities of the epidemic through its protagonist Andy and his family physician Dr. Walt Branch. Both characters struggle to cope with Andy’s mysterious debilitating illness and eventual death from AIDS-related complications . . . With this novel, Reed initiated a writing career that determinedly grappled with the evolving concerns of HIV epidemiology, even as the most personal contours of his private life were simultaneously and gravely impacted by the virus.” –Mark John Isola, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States, Volume 2, Emmanuel Nelson, editor
“Paul Reed’s Facing It sounded the first call to the ravages, horrors, and duplicitous national reaction to the beginning of AIDS. An indictment, as well as a mirror of hope, its revelations still compel.” –Philip F. Clark, author of The Carnival of Affection
“Facing It will help us to face not just AIDS but the random cruelties and rare beauties of this life. Mr. Reed has done us all a good turn by writing this novel.” –Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, blurb from the original edition
Paul Reed was born in California in 1956 and along with Facing It: A Novel of AIDS, he was the author of several works of fiction, memoir and nonfiction, including safe-sex erotica under the pen name Max Exander. He died in January 2002 of AIDS-related complications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Library of Homosexual Congress (A Rebel Satori Imprint)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1608643301
• ISBN 13: 9781608643301
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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