The Way We Live Now

by Susan Sontag, Howard Hodgkin, Hodgkin Sont

This story, which is largely about AIDS, was first published in "The New Yorker". The six paintings by Howard Hodgkin commissioned to accompany the text, are incorporated into the book as a series of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374523053
• ISBN13: 9780374523053
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Noonday Press
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.6"

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When the party ended

First published as a short story in the New Yorker, this slim volume focuses on a small circle of friends coping with the illness of a mutual beloved. Like a fly on the hospital wall Sontag, mostly through strands of connecting dialogue, deftly recreates a late-1980s filled with fear, benevolence and wonder as the characters try to make sense of the disease that devoured Manhattan's creative demimonde. The word AIDS is never mentioned, but anyone who soldiered through those dark days will recognize the heart-sinking horror.