Beyond Love

By Dominique Lapierre

Book Overview

Renowned for his bestsellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy, Lapierre has created his most extraordinary work yet--the dramatic account of the fight to identify, control, and eventually eliminate the AIDS virus, as seen through the eyes of the doctors and scientists, heroes and dreamers working desperately toward this goal. LG Featured Alternate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446393460
• ISBN13: 9780446393461
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.0" x 12.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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Got to chapter 2 about how lab mice are tortured in the name of science, and threw it away

More relevant than ever

This book relates the story of how the life and work of two Nobel Prize winners in different fields (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Luc Montagnier, who first identified the AIDS virus, and 1979 Noble Price in Peace winner, Mother Teresa who established the first hospice for AIDS patients in the U.S. in South Bronx, NY.) and many other smart and kind people, work together to address the suffering that AIDS brings, and the work of the scientific community to stop the spread of AIDS and try to find a cure. This books reflects many of the best and worst attributes of Mankind, and is an incredibly interesting read. This is one of the best books you will ever read

Breathtaking...even after all these years.

I must have read this book 4-5 years ago. And it left such an impression that after all these years...I realise that I have to reread the book and write this review. For everyone who have read ths review, my advice is to read the book, I will not give away the suspense. But the interactions of the characters, the emotions protrayed and the reality of it all will definitely strike a chord in everybody's hearts. For once, I am so disappointed that the book is out of print, because, it should be shared by all readers young and old. It not only opens your mind, it makes you see things in a perspective you never knew existed.

Simply beyond words

He leído este bellísimo libro en español "Mas Grandes que el Amor". El contenido de este libro esá mas allá de las palabras. Es increible la terminología extraordinaria usada por el autor al explicar el descubrimiento del virus del SIDA "AIDS" y otras plagas que han atacado a la humanidad. Es tan Celestial como Madre Teresa creó una clinica de amor para los moribundos víctimas de estas plagas, con personas sin muchos conocimientos médicos, y aún asi, pudieron curar el alma de estos moribundos antes de morir. Un libro de similar contenido: Médico de Cuerpos y Almas" "Dear and Glorious Physician"

A global look at how individuals impact each other.

My father gave me a copy oth this book about six year ago. I was captivated by the way individuals around the world had a positive impact on each other. i am thinking of the young priest who was gravely injured, but found that he could connect to others through praying for them. The work of Mother Theresas sisters, the scientists studying AIDS, it was truly a human mosaic. The intertwining of people who may never have met! Truly, "No man is an island."