Paul Monette Livres

Set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, this memoir offers a poignant exploration of love and loss. It combines lyrical prose with a deeply personal narrative, capturing the emotional turmoil and resilience experienced during a significant period in history. Recognized as a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a recipient of the PEN Center West literary award, it stands out as a powerful testament to enduring love amidst tragedy, ultimately conveying a message of hope.

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.

Celebrating the transformative power of love, "Sanctuary" weaves a tale where affection faces the challenges posed by malevolence. The narrative highlights how acts of goodness can overcome obstacles, ultimately liberating love from its trials. This classic fairy tale embodies themes of resilience and redemption, showcasing the triumph of good over evil.

A poignant memoir detailing the author's journey of growing up gay in America, spanning the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores themes of repression and self-discovery, culminating in the transformative encounter with the man he thought he would never find.

A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret -- from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of "the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing."Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.

Retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula based on the screenplay of the 1979 German film Nosferatu.

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

Sieben harte Männer.Der Krieg ist ihr metier,der Tod ihr Berufsrisiko.Doch diesmal ist es anders,kein Krieg,sondern Kampf gegen die tödlichste Kreatur,die es jemals auf der Erde gegeben hat.Gegen den Predator.Und er holt sie sich.Einen nach dem anderen.Es gibt kein Entkommen,und jeder Tod wird entsetzlicher.Dann bleibt nur noch einer übrig.Major Allan Schaefer.Im Herz des Dschungels nimmt er den Kampf gegen das mörderische "Ding" auf.

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.