Starry Starry Night: Provincetown's Response to the AIDS Epidemic

By Jeanne Braham

Starry, Starry Night is a lyrical and personal account of the close-knit community of Provincetown (MA.) and its remarkable response to the AIDS epidemic that has decimated its ranks in the last... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571290583
• ISBN13: 9781571290588
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Brookline Books
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Moving, poignant, worthwhile!

A preliminary aside: take the whiny tone of the Kirkus Reviewer's comments (above) with a very large grain of salt. Then read this book. It goes far beyond the depth of others with similar goals. Its power resides not only in its subject matter but also in its empathetic and thoughtful treatment of those who have provided the interviews on which the book is based. Fine, fine work indeed.

A beautiful account of the spiritual triumph over AIDS.

In recording the stories of one community's response to the AIDS pandemic, the authors have captured the essense of the human spirit as it faces catestrophic circumstances. Starry Night is not just the record of Provincetown's response to AIDS; it is a wonderfully written account of how people embrace people when confronted by adversity. It is a story of place and of people and it transcends both of these to chronical something much larger than one community on a 'spit of land' at the edge of America.