Paul Monette Book order (chronological)
Paul Monette was a celebrated author whose works delved into the lives of gay men, exploring their quests for identity, love, and fulfillment within a heteronormative society. His writing, spanning novels, poetry, and memoir, often tackled themes of love, loss, and the fight against the stigma of AIDS. Monette's style is characterized by its raw honesty and emotional depth, earning him a significant place in 20th-century literature. His writings serve as a powerful testament to resilience and humanity in the face of adversity.
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.
Afterlife
- 278 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastating the American gay community. Here, National Book Award winner Paul Monette depicts three men of various economic and social backgrounds, all with one thing in common: They are widowers, in a way, and all of their lovers died of AIDS in an LA hospital within a week of one another. Steven, Sonny, and Dell meet weekly to discuss how to go on with their lives despite the hanging sword of being HIV positive. One tries to find a semblance of normalcy; one rebels openly against the disease, choosing to treat his body as a temple that he can consecrate and desecrate at will; and one throws himself into fierce political activism. No matter what path each one takes, they are all searching for one thing: a way to live and love again. Afterlife finds Paul Monette at his most autobiographical, portraying men in a situation that he himself experienced, and one that he described to critical acclaim in the award-winning Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir .
Geliehene Zeit
- 498 pages
- 18 hours of reading
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.
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh must track down Jonathan Mardukas, a fugitive from the Feds, the mafia, and his bail bondsman, a search complicated by the arrival of another bounty hunter, Max Dorfler
