Paul Monette Book order (chronological)

Winner of the National Book Award for Becoming a Man, his candid and passionate account of growing up gay in a time of ignorance and bigotry, this third volume of Paul Monette's autobiographical writing brings together an eclectic collection of essays written under the shadow of AIDS. Meditative, philosophical, sometimes blisteringly angry, Paul Monette presents a simultaneously personal and universal vision of the struggle for freedom faced by gay and lesbian people in 1990s American, counteracting reference to his own illness with a unique perspective on literature, politics and religion. Varied yet focused, damning yet tender, Last Watch of the Night shines like a beacon of hope in a fog of intolerance - offering solace to those who think they're alone, raining down shame on those who would have them stay that way.

Es bleibt der Verdacht, dass das Coming-out der neuen Generation schwuler Männer nicht unbedingt anders aussieht, vielleicht in den Accessoires und Details, doch im Ganzen durchaus dem schwulen Erwachsenwerden in den 60er und 70er Jahren gleicht.

The critically and popularly acclaimed coming of age/coming out story from the author of "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir." "Witty as it is anguished and as full of understanding as of anger, this is Monette's best book."-- "Booklist"

A ground-breaking novel by the author of the celebrated AIDS memoirs Borrowed Time, Afterlife is the story of a new kind of widower--those survivors of AIDS who must try to learn to live and love again after great loss. Though they are very difference Steven, Dell, and Sonny have shared one wrenching experience: All three kept vigil together in the corridors of a Los Angeles hospital as, within days of one another, their lovers died. Now, after a year of gathering as a kind of mourners' club every Saturday night, each man must embark on a life after AIDS--the afterlife

Zwei Jahre lang leistet Paul seinem an AIDS erkrankten Freund im Kampf gegen die heimtückische Krankheit Beistand. Als Roger Horwitz an Aids erkrankt, ist auch sein Freund Paul bereits infiziert. Gemeinsam lehnen sie sich auf und kämpfen - gegen die Krankheit, gegen die Gleichgültigkeit ihrer Umwelt und gegen ihre eigene Verzweiflung.