Bibliograph

To the friend who did not save my life, Hervé Guibert ; introduction by Andrew Durbin ; afterword by Edmund White ; translated by Linda Coverdale

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To the friend who did not save my life, Hervé Guibert ; introduction by Andrew Durbin ; afterword by Edmund White ; translated by Linda Coverdale

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

To the friend who did not save my life

Responsibility statement

Hervé Guibert ; introduction by Andrew Durbin ; afterword by Edmund White ; translated by Linda Coverdale

Summary

First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. Guibert chronicles three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life as, in the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, describing the progression of the disease and recording the reactions of his many friends

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