Afterlife

Paul Monette

Crown Publishers, 1990 - Fiction - 278 pages

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.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 21
• Section 3: 45

About the author

Paul Monette was born on October 16, 1945 in Lawrence, Mass., and has published numerous poetry collections, novels, novelizations, memoirs, and nonfiction works. A distinguished author of both poetry and prose, Monette's writings often explored issues relating to homosexuality and AIDS. After receiving critical acclaim in 1975 for a poetry collection The Carpenter at the Asylum, he veered away from his mainstay theme and produced an unlikely pair of books that demonstrated his poet's way with words. The books were No Witnesses, a collection of poems featuring imaginary adventures of famous figures, written in 1981, and The Long Shot, a mystery in which an avid shopper and a forger team to solve a murder. However, his following mystery, Lightfall, written in 1982, was not well-received by the critics. Monette next wrote Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1992. His last work, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise, was a collection of 10 moving and uncompromising essays dealing with topics such as his beloved dog Puck and the 1993 Gay and Lesbian March on Washington, D.C. Paul Monette died as a result of complications from AIDS on February 18, 1995.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Afterlife; Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection
• Author: Paul Monette
• Edition: braille
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, 1990
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 11, 2008
• ISBN: 0517573393, 9780517573396
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay